My essays

White Women Have 100 Days to Help Save the World

Since the 1950s, a majority of white women have voted Republican in all but two presidential elections. But if we mobilize, we can help elect the first…

Jul 22 •

It's the Fucking Guns

If the attempted assassination of their presidential candidate wasn’t a wake-up call for Republican gun extremists, then losing this election needs to…

Jul 16 •

Hot Menopausal Woman Summer

Middle-aged women are having a moment

Jun 18 •

A follow up conversation on the undiagnosed Gen X'ers with ADHD

Listen in to my conversation with Amanda de Cadenet

May 28 •

How being connected to our phones can disconnect us from one another

Tell me about how you use your smartphone and social media apps

May 14 •

Decades of undiagnosed ADHD in Gen X girls created a “lost generation” of women

How ADHD symptoms impact us throughout our lives, from puberty to menopause

Apr 30 •

It's time for women to become activists for menopause care

A new book by Dr. Sharon Malone shows women how to navigate the medical system and to advocate for themselves in midlife

Apr 9 •

When women learn to trust their intuition, it can change - and even save - their lives

How to turn your supernatural superpower into a secret weapon

Mar 19 •

Respect for manthority: Knowledge is power, unless you’re a woman

Why the gender bias against women experts is harmful and how we can all do our part to fix it

Feb 29 •

What middle-aged women see when they look in the mirror

Who gets to decide what women should look like?

Feb 20 •

My year of following experts' advice on how to make friends

It's not easy to make friends in your fifties, but it's worth it

Feb 6 •

Eleven years ago, I started a fire that helped burn down the NRA

Previously published in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper

Dec 12, 2023 •

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