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New Year, Gentle Goals

Every January, there’s this unspoken pressure to arrive fully reinvented. New habits. New mindset. New calendar color-coding system. And normally, I’m kind of into that. I like a goal. I like a fresh start. But this year? Not so much.…

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What I Wish Husbands Knew About Perimenopause

Perimenopause and menopause can feel confusing, overwhelming, and honestly pretty lonely. Not just because of the physical symptoms (which are real and exhausting), but because so many women don’t even know what’s happening to their bodies… let alone how to…

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5 Tips for Navigating College Break

When your college kid comes home for break, everything feels familiar and at the same time, completely different. It can be cozy and joyful… full of familiar routines, late-night conversations, and the comfort of having everyone under one roof again.…

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7 Reasons Aging Is Actually Awesome

There was a time when I thought “getting older” meant giving things up — energy, youth, collagen in my neck. (Okay, I do miss that last one.) But lately, I’ve realized something wild: I wouldn’t go back to my twenties…

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How to Make Friends in Your 40s

If you’d told me in my 20s that friendship in my 40s would require the same courage as walking into a cafeteria on the first day of high school, I wouldn’t have believed you. Yet here we are — grown…

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Advice To Our Teenage Selves

On our recent book tour for All You Can Be with ADHD, Penn and I met so many amazing kids — some as young as twelve — who told us they listen to our Laugh Lines podcast. I was floored…

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Bring It Back or Pass?

If you fell for the Columbia House Records scam and got collection notices… you’re in the right place. You remember the one… “10 CDs for 99 cents!” A deal that felt too good to be true because well, it was.…

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3 Things I Hope Kids Take Away From Our Book

When we started writing All You Can Be with ADHD, Penn said something that stuck with me: “I want this to be the book I wish I had as a kid.” It wasn’t until college that Penn was diagnosed with…

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10 Questions to Ask Your College Kid

There are few things more emotional than Parents Weekend. You spend weeks counting down, imagining the reunion, the hugs, the chance to see your college kid thriving in their new world—and then, suddenly, they’re right in front of you. (And…

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The Pros and Cons of Youth Sports

If you’ve ever found yourself on the sidelines of a soccer field or sweating through a tennis tournament in the middle of July, you know that youth sports are… complicated. It starts with your kid happily picking clovers in the…

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