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My Husband’s Manic Break Left Me Running for My Life

Published by Abby West

Nine years ago a battalion of police cars and a whole lot of crazy portended the end of my 16-year marriage, and I — someone who’d gone from living...

January 19, 2021

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Wisdom

When You Lose Your Mother

Published by Sarah Balsley

I can’t tell you exactly why I photographed each of my parents dead in their beds. It seemed important not to let such a moment go undocumented. What if...

January 12, 2021

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Stories

Walking It Off: How My Morning Habit Helped Me Find Myself Again

Published by Alexandra Rosas

I looked at the calendar and couldn’t believe it had been five months. Five months since the last time I had gone on what had been a daily, one-hour...

January 5, 2021

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Wisdom

7 Tips to Make it Through a Quarantine Holiday

Published by Heather Graham

We can’t travel. No one outside of our pods should come over. We’re grieving all of the people lost to COVID. Money is tight. The general feeling is: “This...

December 22, 2020

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Culture

In Defense of Over-Holidaying

Published by Siobhan Adcock

My husband grew up Jewish, and when we started dating, it fell to me to introduce him to Christmas as full-fledged participant, rather than exasperated outside witness. He couldn’t...

December 21, 2020

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Culture

The Grinch Had It Right: Presents Ruin the Holidays

Published by Diane di Costanzo

Not to brag, but I was something of a step-aerobics queen in the 1990s. (Don’t remember step classes? Think Zumba but with a plastic riser, here it comes, to...

December 8, 2020

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Culture

How to Find Joy During the Pandemic without Feeling Guilty

Published by Amy Barr

A few months back, I turned 60 and my son, Nick, turned 30. We had been planning a joint party with lots of family and friends, but that idea...

November 24, 2020

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Culture

One Cookie at a Time: Carrying the Weight of My Anxiety

Published by Lynn Hepburn

I’ve been anxious for most of my life. I can trace my anxiety back to age six, the year my parents officially separated. Back then, we called my dad...

November 17, 2020

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Culture

An Astrologer’s Self-Care Checklist to Get Us to Inauguration Day

Published by Karrie Myers Taylor

November 4th has come and gone, and guess what? We finally have a President Elect! But we’re a far cry and a million angry White House tweets away from...

November 10, 2020

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Wisdom

Why I Vote: TueNighters Share Highlights from the Polls

Published by Heather Graham

The 2020 election has seemed endless, but we’re almost to the finish line (we hope). TueNighters across the country were among the nearly 100 million voters who’ve already gone...

November 3, 2020

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Culture, Politics

Meet Violet Sky, the 19-Year-Old Living Like It Is 1985

Published by Margit Detweiler

For those of us around in the mid-80s, we may have a fondness or nostalgia (or deep cringe) for teased perms, forearms of black rubber bangles, fluorescent-colored tops and...

October 27, 2020

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Culture, Throwback

I Learned Everything I Know from Harriet the Spy

Published by Fran Mason

Brick houses, courtyard apartments with trees and dirt in the yards, alleys, little grocery stores and bickering neighbors: This was my world, and it was Harriet the Spy’s world,...

October 20, 2020

Books, Culture, Life Lessons

Silly Things People Have Said to Me When I Tell Them I’m Not Having Kids

Published by Tamar Anitai

There will be no children in my future. Ever. Yes, I am married. Yes, my husband knows that I do not want children. Yes, we both realize we’re extremely...

October 13, 2020

Love+, Relationships, Stories

The Real Cost of Caregiving

Published by Courtney Colwell

When I was recently in Pittsburgh, giving my sister a much-needed break from taking care of our mother, I heard a sharp cracking sound, followed by something hitting the...

October 6, 2020

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Stories

Siblings at Odds: He’s an Evangelical Preacher, I’m an Atheist

Published by Sara Gilliam

He's conservative; she's liberal — can these two siblings find common ground?

September 29, 2020

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Family, Stories

Nina & Margit September Pop-Culture Roundup

Published by TueNight Crew

Every month (almost) Nina Lorez Collins of The Woolfer and Margit Detweiler (of this here thing, TueNight) get together for a chat about anything and everything pop culture. On...

September 25, 2020

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Culture

Grandma’s: A House Manual in the Age of COVID

Published by Margaret Crandall

Welcome to Grandma’s house. We understand this was not your first choice for a week away from the toxic San Francisco air, especially when the air down here in...

September 22, 2020

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Caregiving, Stories

Come Sleep with Me: Caretaking Mom

Published by Desiree Cooper

When I turned 50, I rediscovered the splendid stretch of my own bed. Marriage-free after 25 years, children grown and gone, no pets with their whiny demands, I could...

September 15, 2020

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Caregiving, Stories

Taking Care of the Strongest Man I Ever Knew

Published by Christine Stroebel

My father asked me, “How long does it take?” I felt all the sound, light, air — everything — leave the room; only the weight of those words...

September 1, 2020

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Loss, Stories

I’m An Insomniac. And I’m Sleeping Like a Baby During the Pandemic

Published by Jenny Douglas

“You know, don’t you, that Cleo chewed on your hair while you were sleeping last night.” Kent, my beloved, is speaking to me from across the kitchen counter about...

August 25, 2020

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Sleep, Stories

TueNight 10: Jenny Seymour

Published by TueNight Crew

When she's not optimizing websites and mobile apps, Minnesota-based Jenny Seymour enjoys singing showtunes, co-hosting Hamiltunes events, and doing pin-up photo shoots.

January 19, 2021

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TueNight10

TueNight 10: Jennifer Kane

Published by TueNight Crew

Jen is an author and a digital wellness consultant who helps people find ways to maximize technology’s benefits while minimizing its harm.

January 11, 2021

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TueNight 10: Eva Tenuto

Published by TueNight Crew

Eva is a Gen-X storyteller who co-founded and leads TMI Project, a non-profit that helps people divulge the "TMI" parts of their stories that they usually leave out.

January 7, 2021

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TueNight 10: Tracey Baker-Simmons

Published by TueNight Crew

Tracey Baker-Simmons is a film and television executive, and a pioneer of reality television. (She created the Bravo reality series Being Bobby Brown, starring controversial music legends Bobby Brown...

December 21, 2020

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TueNight 10: Teresa Misagal

Published by TueNight Crew

Teresa is a shibori artist who uses indigo as her medium. She is a maker, creator, collector, and Japan traveler who draws on her fashion and photography background to...

December 17, 2020

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TueNight10

TueNight 10: Sherri Franklin

Published by TueNight Crew

Sherri is the CEO of the San Francisco nonprofit Muttville Senior Dog Rescue, which has rescued and found new homes for more than 8,300 dogs since she founded the...

November 19, 2020

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TueNight10

10 Ways to Keep From Retiring in a Cardboard Box

Published by Caitlin Kelly

I’ve never had access to a 401(k) plan — I’ve been working full-time freelance since 2006. I’ve always wanted to retire, no matter how anathema that sounds in workaholic...

February 21, 2017

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Money

How to Have the Money Talk with Your Parents

Published by Lauren Young

(Photo credit: Stocksy.com) Even if you began planning for your Golden Years at an early age, there is one thing about retirement that no one ever warns you about:...

February 21, 2017

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Money

How a Finance Pro Saves for Retirement After Leaving Her Job

Published by Bobbi Rebell Kaufman

As the author of How to be a Financial Grownup, I am the original Financial Grownup. Right after college, I got my Certificate in Financial Planning so I would...

February 21, 2017

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Money

What No One Tells You About Planning for Retirement

Published by Courtney Colwell

I put at least 10 percent (or is it 15 percent?) of my salary in my 401K every year. I contribute to a ROTH every other year (or so)....

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Money

9 Summer Shoes That Will Keep Your Feet in a State of Happy

Published by Margit Detweiler

Happy feet, it has been said, are the secret to a happy life. Or maybe I just said that. Anyway, as someone with a myriad of foot ailments, I...

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Fashion, Stories, Style

Lipstick Secrets: My Quest to Wear Parallel Red, Forever

Published by Alison Mazer

In 1986, during my first month of college at SUNY Purchase, I spotted a woman on campus wearing the most beautiful, fire-engine-red lipstick — and no other makeup. Just...

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Beauty, Style

The Magic of the Bitch and Swap

Published by Wendy Marston

Long ago in the 1990s, when I was a freelance magazine writer, I never had enough of anything — money, love, other people, and of course, clothing. I worked...

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Fashion

18 Seriously Comfortable Shoes for Spring and Summer

Published by Margit Detweiler

My shoe predicament has become even worse. About two springs ago, when I was on the hunt for the bestest, comfiest, maybe even cute-in-a-certain-light pair of shoes, I wrote...

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Style

I Let My Student Talk Me Into Botox

Published by Nicola Prentis

Dr. M wasn’t my doctor; he was my student. Normally at 10 a.m. on a Monday morning, we were in his office having English class. But today, I was...

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Beauty

How to Build the Perfect Bed

Published by Jody Jones

Photo courtesy Jody Jones Sleep, that elusive and temperamental beast. I’ve spent my adulthood seeking it like Godzilla hunts Mothra, or the way that perimenopausal women look for sleep....

February 7, 2017

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Style, The Bod

TueNight Live: Photos from “First Jobs” at The Wing

Published by TueNight Crew

All photos by Erika Hokanson. We worked Fashion Week, drove a Weinermobile, toured with RuPaul, sold chocolate chip cookies — and got more than we bargained for. These were...

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TueNight Events, Video

Now That I’m Over 40, I Cannot and I Will Not… (VIDEO)

Published by TueNight Crew

“Stop cursing like a sailor!” “Stop having adventures.” “Wear Spanx.” Hell to the yes, sister. We asked several women over 40 about the things they can’t stop/ won’t stop...

November 7, 2017

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Video