On Valentine’s Day, loneliness, and the quiet cost of false intimacy. We keep hearing the same phrase repeated like a diagnosis: loneliness is an epidemic. Articles warn of rising isolation. Studies ...

And that’s not because you don’t want to or because you don’t know how. It’s because something inside you freezes the moment you even think of leaning on someone else. There is a voice inside of you ...

It’s a practical concern, in a way: we can only process as much as we know how to process. If we seek to avoid discomfort, we may not even try to process. If we long to cling to the island of “good ...

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Langston Hughes (February 1), Rosa Parks (February 4), Bob Marley (February 6), Laura Ingalls Wilder, Charles Dickens (February 7), Alice Walker (February 9), Thomas Edison (February 11), Judy Blume, ...

As a new year rolled into our lives on January 1st, 2026, I was feelin’ what a lot of other folks were saying: It’s impossible that 2006 was 20 years ago. Nopeity, nope, nope, nope. This is not right.

In this New Year, I wish a fresh start for all of us, and our dear earth. But that wish must start at home. In the New Year, I wish a fresh start for all of us, and our dear earth. But that wish must ...

Learning to say no without feeling like a terrible person changed my life—and it might change yours too. I used to pride myself on being the person everyone could count on. Need someone to cover your ...

It’s my favorite time of year, the quiet coffee morning moments surrounded by the soft glow of white Christmas tree lights and the aching moans of my midlife body as I wrap presents, sitting on the ...

The dark. The cold. The quiet. The days when all we want to do is hide under a cozy blanket with a cup of tea and a comfort movie. But our mind and heart insist on reflecting on the year behind us. On ...