grown-ass lady storytelling

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...

August 13, 2019

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Body, Health, Life Lessons, Mind, Stories

Following the Black Line: How I Found Peace in the Pool

Published by Wendy Goldman Scherer

I was a competitive swimmer in my early teens. My coach, Paul, always had me swim backstroke even though I wanted to swim breaststroke. I was faster in breaststroke....

July 30, 2019

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Body, Health, Issues, Sports & Outdoors

A Porch of One’s Own: The Perils and Pleasures of Building My Happy Place

Published by Amy Barr

For 20 years I dreamed of a place where I could just “be” at my house: feel the breeze, watch the trees, hear the birds, avoid the bugs. In...

July 16, 2019

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Home, Issues, Stories

Block & Tackle: My Role in Redefining Sports Journalism

Published by Nancy Kruger Cohen

At a fancy Manhattan restaurant, over a very mid-90’s seared tuna salad, I make an impassioned pitch to be the creative director of a sports magazine. I tell the...

July 2, 2019

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Career, Issues, Work

I’m Proud That I Never Had to “Come Out” to My Parents

Published by Heather Barmore

There is a photo of my friend Hannah taken during the Pride parade in Philadelphia. Her arms are raised to the heavens, the sunlight landing perfectly on her face....

June 25, 2019

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Family, Issues, Love+

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...

June 18, 2019

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Fashion, Issues, Style

TueNight Live: Photos from SECRET

Published by TueNight Crew

All photos by Erika Hokanson. Shh… Sometimes our stories are for select ears only. But for this Spring edition of TueNight Live we were ready to reveal our most...

May 6, 2019

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Events, Issue: Secret, TueNight Events

The Secret Issue: Shhh…

Published by Margit Detweiler

We all have secrets. I like to think I’m an upfront, transparent kind of gal, yet there are a lot of things I’ve never told anyone. Hey, what if...

April 30, 2019

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Issue: Secret, Margit's Note

61% of Women Would Rather Talk About Their Own Deaths Than This Topic

Published by Diane di Costanzo

My trigger to stop being so secretive about money occurred in a Palm Springs hot tub, while my sister and I were parboiling ourselves under a clump of shaggily...

April 30, 2019

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Issue: Secret, Money, Work

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...

April 30, 2019

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Beauty, Issue: Secret, Style

A Onetime “Closeted” Republican Decides to Come Out — and Slam the Door.

Published by Hitha Herzog

The term “closeted” has been used to describe many marginalized groups. It rarely has been used to describe a brown woman who is a Republican. Let me explain. Growing up...

April 30, 2019

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Culture, Issue: Secret, Politics

Learning the Truth About My Real Father

Published by Joanna Briley

Growing up, I never knew my name. I mean, I had a name but I never knew it because I was called “Piggy” since I was born. Story goes,...

April 30, 2019

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Family, Issue: Secret

How to Date Your Crazy

Published by Ruth Gallogly

I should have known we wouldn’t work out when I messaged him one of my favorite quotes from Alain de Botton. It’s from the On Being podcast “The True...

February 12, 2019

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Dating, Life Lessons, Love+, Stories

I Wish I Could Forget My Memory Lapses

Published by Wendi Aarons

My friends and I have started to lose our memories. Not in a drastic, “Where do I live again?” type of way. Or even in a milder, “Ohhh, my...

January 29, 2019

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Body, Mind, Stories

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 18, 2018

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Family, Home, Stories

Birthday Issue: Not Dead Yet

Published by Margit Detweiler

I write this to you with no pants on. Sorry for the image, but I’m on deadline to publish this piece, I haven’t figured out what I’m wearing to our...

October 23, 2018

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Issue: Birthday, Margit's Note

The Night I Took Uber Pool to the Emergency Room

Published by Deborah Copaken

I’m crawling around on the bathroom floor, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not metaphor. They are actual pieces. Plum-sized, beet-colored, with the consistency and sheen of...

October 23, 2018

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Body, Issue: Birthday

Why I’m Throwing My Own Damn Retirement Party

Published by Penny Wrenn

At 38, and soon to be 39, I am nowhere close to receiving social security checks or living off a cushy pension or a seven-figure Roth IRA. But financial...

October 23, 2018

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Issue: Birthday, Self

Touch My Body — I’ll Pay For It

Published by Dodai Stewart

I’m single. Sometimes it seems like I’ve always been single. I’ve had boyfriends, sure, but the default is single. This time around I’ve been single for about five continuous...

October 23, 2018

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Body, Issue: Birthday

Masking It: The Night I Started Hiding Alcohol

Published by Susan Linney

After a six-month, self-imposed period of abstinence from alcohol, drinking crept back into my life — while I was in costume. It was Halloween night, 2009. I was dressed...

October 23, 2018

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Body, Bottles Down, Issue: Birthday

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 23, 2018

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Issue: Birthday, Love+, Relationships

The Mazel Tov Slap: The Jewish Tradition You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Published by Karen Gerwin

When I told my mother I got my period for the very first time, she slapped me across the face and shouted, “Mazel Tov!” It wasn’t a punishment slap...

October 23, 2018

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Family, Issue: Birthday, Love+

My Struggle With God Ended on a Plane

Published by Dionne Ford

It was my best friend, Brenda, who introduced God and me. I was four. She was eight and lived in my grandparent’s trailer park with her mom, dad, several...

October 23, 2018

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Issue: Birthday, Spirituality

Happy Birthday to Us! Get Tix to Our Live Event, 10/23

Published by TueNight Crew

We can hardly believe it’s been five years. But as any TueNighter knows… Age is something to CELEBRATE. For our birthday edition, we’re bringing back excerpts of some of our...

October 16, 2018

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Events, Issue: Birthday, TueNight Events

TueNight Live: Photos from “FLASH”

Published by TueNight Crew

On September 25, TueNight Live steamed things up with our latest issue — FLASH. Braving the (appropriately named) flash floods outside, we cozied into the couches of Industrious to...

October 2, 2018

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Events, Issue: Flash, TueNight Events

October Issue: FLASH

Published by Margit Detweiler

Welcome to our October issue! For this edition we’re putting on our flashiest sequins to discuss everything FLASH. Not the lightening-bolted superhero. (Well, actually, him too). But every other...

September 25, 2018

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Issue: Flash, Margit's Note

Pregnancy, Menopause and Learning the Ukelele — Not Necessarily in That Order

Published by Jen Darr

At 36, I decided I was ready to get pregnant. I had quit drinking two and a half years earlier, and had just met someone new — an AA-approved...

September 25, 2018

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Issue: Flash, Self

A Sexpert’s 5 Tips to Mind-Blowing Sex After Menopause

Published by Domina Franco

We think about menopause as a time when our sexuality slows down or becomes more of a struggle — while this is true for some people it also doesn’t...

September 25, 2018

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Issue: Flash

What is an Orgy Dome? This Midlife Couple Finds Out

Published by Nina Lorez Collins

Burning Man is a festival — really a temporary city — that appears for one week every summer in the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada, and then disappears. Started...

September 25, 2018

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Issue: Flash, Sex

Flashing Back to the Playboy Mansion, Paris & Prague in Search of a Better Body Image

Published by Sue Kramer

Cannabis lube and three orgasms in one night. Yep. That’s what my middle-aged, present day, post-divorce sex life looks like… sometimes. While some friends are complaining about atrophied vaginas,...

September 25, 2018

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Issue: Flash, Love+

The 5 Kübler-Ross Stages of a Hotflash

Published by Tracey Lynn Lloyd

July 2016. The month New York City officially became hot as Hades and even Texas was sympathetic. Given the temperature, I wasn’t surprised when my sweat glands exploded on...

September 25, 2018

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Body, Issue: Flash

How I Officially Became a Middle-Aged Badass in the Finnish Arctic

Published by Susan McPherson

A few summers ago, I was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a roundtrip holiday junket to the Finnish Arctic region in hopes that I’d write about the region’s...

September 25, 2018

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Issue: Flash, Trips

How The Flash Inspired My Perimenopausal Alter Ego

Published by Audrey Herbst

8:15PM on a Tuesday Family bonding time. We’re all huddled in my bed watching The Flash on Netflix, a bowl of popcorn propped precariously between my younger son and...

September 25, 2018

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Issue: Flash, Self

Summer Issue: 90s Bitch

Published by Margit Detweiler

Hanging in my office at the Philadelphia City Paper in the 90s, was a wildly vivid, fluorescent-colored poster that read “Las Lunachicks” and it featured an illustration of a...

July 17, 2018

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Issue: 90's Bitch, Margit's Note

TueNight Live: Photos from “90’s Bitch” at The Invisible Dog

Published by TueNight Crew

Last week, on July 17, TueNight Live rolled back a few decades to celebrate our latest issue — 90’s BITCH. Over 80 people gathered in the beautiful Brooklyn art...

July 17, 2018

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Issue: 90's Bitch, TueNight Events

A Warped Tour: One Lunachick’s Life on the Road

Published by Theo Kogan

It was 1999, a full-on, hot and sweaty Summer. We were getting ready to go on the infamous Vans Warped Tour that is ironically — or un-ironically — touring...

July 17, 2018

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Issue: 90's Bitch, Music

Unmasked: The Day I Visited Dad in the AIDS Ward

Published by Jenny Laden

artwork by Jenny Laden 2018 In the hospital lobby they looked at me funny when I told them I was visiting the 3rd floor. I took off my headphones, turned...

July 17, 2018

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Family, Issue: 90's Bitch

The Case of the Bad Panties

Published by Alice Bradley

In 1992, I was 23 and the girl who had sex on the first date, if not before.Not coincidentally, I was also drinking too much and dating a lot...

July 17, 2018

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Issue: 90's Bitch, Sex

Yada, Yada, Yada: Why My Seinfeld Shorthand Is Still Relevant Today

Published by Crystal Durant

“Potato Salad!” That’s the first phrase I remember my sister saying that made us both crack up so hard that we were both in tears. She was telling me...

July 17, 2018

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Issue: 90's Bitch, TV

9 Lessons I Learned from My 9 Favorite 90s Shows

Published by Faith Cummings

Oh, 1996: The time in which my eighth year of life on this Earth came to an end and my ninth began. I had begun to take school seriously...

July 17, 2018

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Issue: 90's Bitch, TV

Age: 47 Quick bio: Caissie is an Emmy award nominated comedy writer, television producer (most recently for the sorely missed TueNighter fave, Busy Tonight, and before that Watch What Happens Live, The...

August 16, 2019

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TueNight10

TueNight 10: Lynn Hepburn

Published by Kiara Mills

Age: 46 Quick bio: Lynn is a Brooklyn-based, non-profit fundraising executive. She’s on the hunt for her next challenge after 13 years in the same role. Currently soliciting ideason what to...

August 9, 2019

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TueNight10

TueNight 10: Amy Hundley

Published by TueNight Crew

Age: 46 Quick Bio: Amy is an editor and rights director at Grove Atlantic, which is to say she buys and sells books. She’s extremely proud to have edited The Yellow...

July 26, 2019

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TueNight10

TueNight 10: Shannon Watts

Published by Kiara Mills

Age: 48 Quick bio: Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and the author of Fight Like A Mother: How A Grassroots Movement Took On The Gun...

July 19, 2019

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TueNight10

TueNight 10: Nandita Shenoy

Published by TueNight Crew

Quick Bio: Nandita is an actor-writer who loves to hear an audience laugh. Her latest play, Baby Camp, had a public reading in NYC on July 8th. Beyond the Bio: “As...

July 12, 2019

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TueNight10

TueNight 10: Tracey Lynn Lloyd

Published by Kiara Mills

Age: 46.95 Quick Bio: Tracey writes all the things, all the time, in NYC and LA. Follow her on Twitter so she gets enough of a following for a book deal....

July 5, 2019

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TueNight10

61% of Women Would Rather Talk About Their Own Deaths Than This Topic

Published by Diane di Costanzo

My trigger to stop being so secretive about money occurred in a Palm Springs hot tub, while my sister and I were parboiling ourselves under a clump of shaggily...

April 30, 2019

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Issue: Secret, Money, Work

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

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...

June 18, 2019

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Fashion, Issues, 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...

April 30, 2019

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Beauty, Issue: Secret, 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...

April 25, 2017

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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...

April 11, 2017

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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...

March 28, 2017

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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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Body, Style

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...

April 24, 2018

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Issue: First Job, 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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