AscentXmedia/E+/Getty Images Summer always has a magical quality about it, but the summer solstice is especially mystical. It’s more than just an astronomical event; it’s a cultural phenomenon rooted in deep traditions, spanning from paganism to the Neolithic era. The longest day of the year marks the traditional "midsummer," and for literal centuries and centuries,...
Vladimir Vladimirov/Getty Images The conversation started when one of my co-workers popped into our team Slack chat to vent about her husband. Before long, we were all weighing in with our own war stories of weaponized incompetence and how, sometimes, the simmering resentment toward our partners just sort of spills over. A few days later,...
Kentaroo Tryman/Maskot/Getty Images It happened for the first time a few years ago: I was walking out of a restaurant with my beautiful daughter. She was wearing a fitted red shirt, her long black hair was loose and flowing around her shoulders. And for the first time, I noticed a man was clearly checking her...
Tassii/E+/Getty Images Boundaries can be a lot of things for a lot of people. They can be hard lines drawn in the sand (do not cross!) for toxic family members. They can be fluid, ever-changing parameters to keep a relationship in the safe space you’ve dedicated to it. And sometimes they can be a temporary...