Between us, I would bet my Mini Cooper that Mariah Carey does not make her bed in the morning--but she should.
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I'm done with "mom guilt." How about you? So often, I hear my friends trash their maternal abilities. (I used to do it too.)
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Covid has hit women in the workplace with the force of a tsunami. As of January, more than 2.3 million women have lost their jobs over the past year. This is a crisis!
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Does the idea of managing your money make you queasy? A 2020 study from U.S. Bank reveals more women than men associate financial planning with stress and anxiety. I get it.
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Can you host the Zoom meeting, even though it's my turn? No, I can't. Aren't you going to volunteer for the school fundraiser? Not this time.
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Here's a thought: it's not a bad idea to remind everyone--and yourself--that personal texts in a group chat are not for public consumption.
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Random acts of violence against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders have been mounting ever since the onset of Covid.
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Almost every post-apocalyptic movie--from "12 Monkeys" to "Mad Max" to "I Am Legend"--stars a man. And yet, guess who's biologically primed to slay more zombies and survive the end of the world? Yes, us. Yes, women.
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I'm not proud of that fact that I relapsed during Covid. One morning, I woke up, looked at our dwindling savings account and thought, "I need to exhale...tobacco smoke."
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Don't get me wrong: I love "love." But Valentine's Day doesn't have to be a huge thing, whether you're in a partnership or not.
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Johnson's latest novel Better Luck Next Time takes us to Nevada in the late 1930s, where women spend six weeks at the Flying Leap ranch to establish residence in the state and then nab a divorce.
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Let me get this straight: we're in a pandemic, people die every hour, I eat ground turkey five nights a week---and you're in Turks and Caicos, frolicking on a damn yacht?
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I hate puzzles. But I bet you don't and PRETTY RIPE is not all about me. So check out this 500-piece jigsaw puzzle that comes in a Blockbuster VHS case and wallow in nostalgia.
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Quick. Think of a brilliant composer. Likely, you pictured Mozart or Beethoven, right? Now, think of a genius physicist? Einstein? Yup. Me too.
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Well, so much for overachieving because being overworked and overstressed is no longer a badge of self-importance--and that's progress.
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I love to curse. The staccato explosions of a string of F bombs can mimic a machine gun--and feel so satisfying. Well, guess what? Swearing really does makes us feel better.
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Now, more than ever, we need to nurture our female friendships. There's science to prove it too: according to the journal NeuroImage, when women share and bond, they release oxytocin or the "love hormone."
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The Kinsey Institute recently reported that 24% of married people are having less frequent sex than they did before the pandemic. Um, duh.
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I once wrote an article about how women who bemoan their bodies ("I'm so fat") had started to talk smack about their age, as in "Ugh. I look so old."
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Just last month, Scotland made tampons and sanitary pads FREE for all women. Well done. But here in the U.S., we pay over $10,000 on feminine care over our lifetime.
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