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Marriage

5 Distractions After College Drop-Off

Friends, we did it. We officially dropped our daughter off at college. I thought I had braced myself for this moment. (After all, I’ve been thinking about it since before she was born. More on that in the podcast.) But…

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Wellness

5 Things About Perimenopause No One Warned Me About

Perimenopause so far has been… a lot. My brain forgets things it never used to. I have elaborate systems for remembering things. Sleep is a struggle. And don’t get me started on the protein—I swear it’s become my part-time job.…

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Embracing Moments That Remind Us We’re Getting Older

Even though we are all aware we are getting older, there are times in life where you really feel it. Maybe it’s when you pull your back reaching for a cup of coffee. Or you get up to turn off…

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Learn

Say Your Goals Out Loud (Even If It Scares You)

Here’s a fun fact about my husband: Penn hates setting goals. Okay, hate might be too strong of a word, but he really dislikes it. Penn can sing and dance in public unapologetically. He can put on a wig and…

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Learn

What I Learned About Gen Z From My Son

I love being a Gen X Mom. I’ll proudly admit I once got very excited about a new CD tower and spent hours organizing it by genre. Our generation had to deal with calling crushes on landlines and talking to…

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Faves

I’m In My Birding Era

Hobbies when you become middle-aged are fascinating. They come on strong and suddenly without warning. It’s like we all spun a wheel, landed on something like genealogy, quilting, or gardening and that became our entire personality. (We actually made a…

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Learn

The Venn Diagram Between ADHD & Perimenopause

You know what’s fun? Randomly forgetting the word “pothole” while texting someone very important life advice. (I had to completely rewrite the message because I couldn’t think of the word.) Or getting very bent out of shape because I left…

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Learn

60 Tips Before Your Kid Goes To College

I’ve always been a to-do list person. Like, color-coded tabs, shared Google Docs, packing cubes for packing cubes… that kind of person. So you can only imagine the lists I’m packing as I prepare to send my first child off…

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These Opinions Are Wild (And We Love You For Them)

You know those random, slightly unhinged opinions you have that make zero sense to other people — but you will defend them with your whole chest, no matter what? We call that “the hill you’ll die on.” Let’s get my…

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Learn

The Doctor Who Saved His Own Life 

There’s this phrase Penn and I say a lot when we’re overwhelmed—“It’s okay, we’re not saving lives.” It’s our go-to mantra when a video we publish flops or we can’t seem to get the lyrics exactly right. But this week…

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