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There isn’t a person I’ve spoken to who hasn’t experienced big things in 2025. It’s certainly been a year of lessons, transformations, reflections, losses, gains, pain, healing, and with luck, ...

A Good Life or a Whole Life? There’s this myth I bought into for way too long: That a “good” life is a curated one. A tidy one. A high-performing, high-functioning, flawlessly executed life. You know ...

Nah. We don’t care about Trump one iota. We care about the things he’s hurting—healthcare, values, discourse, honesty, food, science, parks, immigration reform, gun reform, climate crisis for all ...

As I’ve written before, I had never found someone with whom I was confident I could navigate ups and downs and lefts and rights and ins and outs of everyday life, before. Life, even when it is good ...

Oh Willa Goodall Lewis, daughter of Kelsey Anne Lewis and Waylon Hart Lewis. How this my only life has changed, suddenly, with your arrival in our home into your mother’s loving arms. How life changes ...

Pretty sure Zohran waved his arm across Donald’s vision and said, “I am not the communist you are looking for.” But, seriously, all it takes is a little common ground and charm and flattery for Mr.