Mothers like to get gifts. We like to be pampered a little bit because we are always doing for others. It is nice to be thought of (…
I come from a family where healthy competition among girl children is encouraged… not competing on how well they cook, but on how well are they educated and…
Trigger warnings – description of sexual assault I was 18. It was the night before Thanksgiving. My friends and I reunited for the first time since we had…
I thought I could do it. I thought I was strong enough and far enough from my own experiences of sexual assault and harassment to wade into the…
So someone you know is having a hysterectomy. It’s a fairly common major operation, and as such, not a ginormous huge deal. But what a lot of people…
A recent Facebook post in a group for midlife women asked members to comment with their term for the phase in life between ages 45 and 55. For…
As a southern woman, I have found that we are too often taught through our experiences that, above everything else, we should be polite. At some point throughout…
Don’t you love how relationships start with that glorious energy that has you banging like spider monkeys all night long? You figure this is how it will be…
Whenever we move, I always have this idea that when we get to wherever we are going, I’ll turn myself into the type of woman that wears lipstick.…
So this is 40. Welcome to the era of mammograms, abnormal Pap smears and aches and pains that only come from inactively sitting in a cubicle all…