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There’s a special club you join when your toddler still wanders into your bed at 2 a.m. or pops off the playground for a quick

Getting older sneaks up on all of us. One year you’re bouncing out of bed with ease, the next you’re realizing your knees sound like

I didn’t move overseas to make a point. I moved because my knees wanted kinder sidewalks, my savings wanted a fighting chance, and my curiosity

I moved abroad in my early sixties with the kind of confidence only ignorance can buy. I pictured sunny plazas, cheap pastries, a little rented

Parenting moves in dog years. One minute you’re tripping over chunky blocks in the hallway; the next, you’re handing over the car keys and pretending

Trust is one of those things we feel before we even think about it. Sometimes you meet a person and immediately sense you can rely

There’s this moment—maybe you’ve felt it—when you realize your kids aren’t “kids” anymore. They’re booking their own flights, setting their own passwords, and texting you

Language ages, just like fashion. What sounded normal in the 1970s or 80s can sound outdated—or even offensive—today. It’s not that boomers mean harm. Most

I used to build project plans for a living. Gantt charts, dependencies, risk logs—the whole thing. Then babies entered the chat. Suddenly my “plans” were

We usually think of strength as muscles or stamina. But if there’s one thing life has taught me as a mom, it’s that the mind

Most of what strengthens (or weakens) our connection with our kids happens in the margins—between school pickup and dinner, during the bath-time hustle, on that

Language has a funny way of sticking to us. We pick up expressions in our teens and twenties, keep using them through our working years,