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.
We survived the first week of remote learning during the pandemic
This is what remote learning looks like for a special needs child and another in a dual language program.
