Karen’s Note: Let Me Sleep On It
Insomnia scenario #1: I’m sleeping, but I can hear the freight train that runs through our backyard blasting its loud, low horn. Why is the freight train making so much… Read More
Issues
Sisters This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Thanks, Sis
(Graphic by Divya Gadangi)It was a chilly 4:30am morning in Brooklyn, and I was bundled up and headed to the Women’s March in D.C. My bus was packed with pink pussy hats, mostly women —… Read More
I Forgot This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: What Was I Going to Say?
The brain is a weird place. We instantly forget the name of someone we just met, but we remember every damn lyric to “Hotel California.” (“What a nice surprise, bring… Read More
Faith This Last Month's Issue
Renovate This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: I Came in Like a Wrecking Ball
As I stare at a huge pile of wall shards stacked in my bathtub, part of a renovation we decided to embark on months ago (read about that here), I’m… Read More
Last Minute This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Wait! One More Thing
(Photo: Stocksy) We are in the 11th hour of 2016 with 11 more days left. (I don’t even want to ask, “Well what else could happen in 2016?” because, heaven… Read More
Toast This Last Month's Issue
Editor’s Note: We Raise Our Glass (You Bet Your Ass)
(Photo: Wikipedia) Salud! Sláinte! A votre santé! Gan Bei! L’Chaim! We couldn’t think of a better way to kick off the holiday season than a TueNight issue devoted to toast(s)…. Read More
Mourn This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: My Mourning List
After rolling out of bed every morning, I shuffle to a particular spot on my living room rug, take a few deep breaths, set my intentions for the day and then… Read More
Checklist This Last Month's Issue
Your Post-Election Checklist for Taking Action, Taking Care and Dealing with Your Feelings
It’s only been a week. And yet, here we are. After the 2016 presidential election results we find ourselves distraught, depressed and still in shock. When we feel this confused and… Read More
Pussy Party This Last Month's Issue
Editors Note: Nasty Women Vote
For a long time, I didn’t want to take a side here on TueNight. Blame the old-school newspaper journalist in me who doesn’t think reporters should take a political stance… Read More
Best Friends This Last Month's Issue
Editor’s Note: Buddy, Buddy
This week goes out to our ride-or-die chicks (and dudes). The ones we’ve been sworn to since we were 12 (Hey, Teresa!), the ones we’ve bonded with through recent circumstances… Read More
Pumpkin This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Orange You Glad Our Theme Is…
Choosing our TueNight themes is not quite an exact science. We Tuenighters, Adrianna, Karen, Darian, Justine and myself — a handful of Gen-Xers and a couple Millennial allies — meet via Zoom video… Read More
Do Over This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Can I Get a Do-Over?
Yesterday was one of those days. I’d overslept. The cat had pooped just to the side of her litter box. (But it’s right there Alice!) I tried to put on… Read More
50 This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: 50 Ain’t Nothing but a #
A few weeks ago, I attended a 50th birthday bash replete with beer, karaoke, ‘80s music, wigs (of course) and a freshly minted AARP card. As a drunken reveler wrapped… Read More
Neighborhood This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?
Take a stroll around your block (or your subdivision, or your farm). Or drive. What do you see? Whether you’ve chosen to live here — or your environment chose you… Read More
First Jobs This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Career Criminal
Our first jobs teach us the value of a dollar and the crap we have to put up with to earn that dollar. Punch a time card. Be nice. Don’t… Read More
Judgy This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: The Summer of Side-Eye
(screengrab via therachelpotter/Twitter, h/t The Daily Dot) I see you there. You and the mini casualties you’re creating on Facebook. Judging the way she parents, the guy she’s dating, the… Read More
Fling This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: An Affair to Remember
A fling means nothing. A dare. A tossed-away kiss. A happy mess you got yourself into. Temporary and mindless. It’s just a fling, after all. In the very last year… Read More
Black Lives Matter This Last Month's Issue
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Ms. Independent This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Ms. Independence
Writing about independence is no easy task. I’ve written this little note to you three or four times, scrapping each edition and littering the page with words like “Liberty” “Freedom”… Read More
Foodie This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Take a Bite
Digging in. (Photo: Stocksy.com) The word “Foodie” is super annoying, right? You imagine a person obsessed with the cultivation of cuisine — how it looks, smells, is plated, is grown,… Read More
Tattoo This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Tattoo You (Not Me)
(Photo: Farrah Braniff/SusanGoldberg.com) I’m on a fast track to 50 and yet… when I half-jokingly ask my mother, as a preface to this issue, how she would feel if I… Read More
Sleep This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Hey, You Awake?
(Photo Courtesy of Kristin Perers, www.thisis50.me) I am generally a good sleeper. Meaning, when the conditions are right: bed, sheets, pillow, prone position — I can fall asleep tout de… Read More
Clutter This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: What a Mess
Spring cleaning! One of my favorite times of year — no joke. It’s when I go all Kondo on my apartment, roll up my socks, fold them ever so nicely… Read More
Prince This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: The Prince Issue
Over the weekend, I watched the MTV broadcast of Purple Rain (more than a few times). Listening to the song, “Beautiful Ones,” I was thrown back to my shag-carpeted, high school-era… Read More
Blush This Last Month's Issue
Rachel’s Note: What Embarrasses This Erotica Writer?
Our guest editor this week is erotica author and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel You might think someone who writes about sex for a living wouldn’t be prone to blushing, but… Read More
Censored This Last Month's Issue
Nothing to See Here
(Graphic: Helen Jane Hearn/TueNight) Chances are when you hear the word “Censored”, you think of the PMRC, 1985, Tipper Gore, Frank Zappa, 2 Live Crew and the beginning of parental advisory… Read More
Retire This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Are We Halfway to the Rainy Day?
I don’t plan on retiring. Or maybe I’ve just never put much thought into it. Ok, let’s be honest. I actively avoid thinking about it. My mom, a septuagenarian, still… Read More