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Lori Borgman: You won't sleep after you read this
My husband is one of those people who can sleep anywhere, anytime.
He can sleep sprawled halfway on and halfway off the sofa, in a straight-back chair, with three grands crawling all over him styling his hair, and during cross-country flights with severe turbulence.
It’s a gift. The man is so gifted he can even fall asleep while I’m ...Read more
Ex-etiquette: Gone too long?
Q. My ex and I were married when we were very young. We had a child soon afterward, but my ex left us, and we were divorced nine months later. I have not seen or heard from him in 8 years. I remarried a wonderful man when my son was a year and a half old and he is the only father my son has known. Today I got a phone call from my ex’s aunt who...Read more
What's up with boys? A discussion with Jim Steyer of Common Sense Media
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Amid a nationwide “masculinity crisis” that has caused boys and young men to gravitate toward traditional gender roles and often misogynistic content, researchers, columnists and political leaders have sought to understand a simple question: What’s up with boys?
To Jim Steyer, the CEO of the media literacy company ...Read more
NC bill bars Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, drawing concern on access to care
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Senate Republicans on Monday rolled out legislation to bar Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program.
The measure would require the state’s health and human services department to remove Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid provider, cancel any contracts with it and shift patients to other providers. ...Read more
Victim turned vigilante hunts con artists and shares most common red flags
The art of the con is just as much a part of human nature as the need for food, shelter, water and clothing. People have been attempting to get something for nothing, or get by with something, for as long as humans have been contemplating the meaning of life.
In "Anatomy Of A Con Artist," author and podcaster Johnathan Walton, himself a victim ...Read more
How to turn your home into the neighborhood hangout spot
With the new school year underway, you’ve likely heard new names — and requests to have friends over.
For elementary schoolers, typically that means getting the other parents’ contact information and setting up a playdate. However, things change for middle school and high school students.
Making your home a place where older kids and ...Read more
How to build a cult following: Lessons from fiction’s most charismatic manipulators
Why do we root for people we’d cross the street to avoid in real life? Fiction is crowded with liars, schemers, stalkers, even killers … and somehow, they have fan clubs. Whether it’s Tom Ripley’s suave cons, Amy Dunne’s razor-sharp vengeance, or Joe Goldberg’s murderous devotion, these characters inspire not just fascination but ...Read more
An Obituary for Earnestness
A 99-year-old woman died yesterday. Though I'd never met her, I cried as I read her obituary.
Her name was Marilyn Hagerty, and even as a nonagenarian, she was still writing the same gentle restaurant reviews that had made her briefly but brilliantly famous.
She wasn't famous in the new way -- she wasn't on TikTok, and she didn't have a ...Read more
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