ABC Television raised me. I mean, not literally; my parents raised me — but television had a real hand in it. Maybe because I was a chronically indoor kid, or maybe because I was a young, impressionable tween wildly critical of own parents’ "oppressive" rules (likely a little of column A and a little of...
Dairy Queen/Instagram Every once in a while, my tween daughter tells me we have to do something. Because everyone is talking about it. It’s how we got matching Owala water bottles, and why we saw Inside Out 2 on opening night— sometimes the tweens just know what’s cool before everyone else. Last night, she told...
TikTok Here in America, we often describe the immediate postpartum period as “being in the trenches” and it’s easy to understand why. Hospital stays are brief — between 24 and 48 hours for a vaginal birth and about two to three days for a c-section — and paid maternity leave is, famously, non-existent if your...
TikTok There’s a (generally good-natured) joke in healthcare that nurses make the worst patients. I don’t know how true that is, but I can also imagine it’s hard to switch over from caregiver to the person receiving care. But it can give you valuable insight that, in the end, can make you an even better...