How I coped with chronic trauma from growing up with undocumented parents
Many leave their hometown and never look back. After 22 years away, Olga reintroduced herself to her hometown and was surprised by what she found.
How to shut down a mansplainer (without even smudging your lipstick)
Any dame worth her salt must know how to wrangle a mansplainer. Here are some proven techniques to stop someone who's bulldozing the conversation.
Empty nester: who will I be without dependent children?
Empty nesting is a complicated web of emotions, but for this 45-year-old English mum, it’s also an opportunity to revisit creative ambitions and carve out a new path forward.
I worked a psychic hotline and these are the 5 most common relationship questions I was asked
This energy reader opens up about the 5 questions she fielded most often while working a psychic hotline — and how those questions changed her life.
Dear Dixie: We met online and I’m in love. When should we meet IRL?
A reader writes to advice columnist Dixie, "I met someone online, but heard through the grapevine she's from a bad crowd. Should I still date her?" Are you a woman over 40? Submit your questions to Dixie—she'll respond with kindness
Dear Dixie: Is it selfish to let friends go?
A reader writes to advice columnist Dixie, "Is it selfish to let certain friendships fall away?" Are you a woman over 40? Submit your questions to Dixie—she'll respond with kindness and no bullshit in equal measure.
Dear Dixie: How to date a confident man when you’re feeling insecure
A reader writes to advice columnist Dixie, "I'm scared I'm not good enough for him." Are you a woman over 40? Submit your questions to Dixie—she'll respond with kindness and no bullshit in equal measure.
What it felt like to live through Texas’s SNOVID-21 as a part-time prepper
By all accounts, we were ready. We had done emergency planning months prior before the election. We're the type to have go-bags under our bed. So, what made SNOVID so hard to endure?
After 50, no one minds your resting bitch face
For most of my life I worked on a neutral face that didn't look mean or unappealing in order to appease the smile bullies. After 50, I've moved into a protected class: females who no longer owe anyone a sweet
COVID divorce aside, what does gray divorce mean now?
Boomers are the first generation of women to seek marriage and self-fulfillment.
