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Sixty Searching and Done Being Quiet: Finding Her Voice

My first memories of women I admired and aspired to be like someday were from my favourite TV shows. Marlo Thomas and Mary Tyler Moore. Peggy Lipton and Susan Dey. If these names give you zero context clues, here's a hint: Susan Dey played Laurie Partridge on…

By Joseph Tito

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Living Inside the Chaos: Patterns People in Their 50s

Now that I'm in my 50s, I see people and places differently. Less through emotion, more through pattern. I notice how things hold together, where tension builds, and what people do when they live inside it for long periods of time. I was recently in Naples,…

By Angela Marotta

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Turning 50 and Not Giving a Flax: Midlife Weight Truths

Recently, in a moment of pure desperation (and possibly hormone-fueled panic), I inquired about a new weight loss program I saw on TV. The struggle is real. Somehow, I’ve gained  five whole pounds since the summer and I swear, it wasn’t from consuming…

By Maryann Perri

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Love Letter to Dr Zargar and My Newly Working Eyeballs

I need you to understand something: I was living my life at 60% capacity and didn't even realize it. Every morning started the same way, eyes crusted shut, lids feeling like they'd been marinating in chalk dust overnight, and that delightful sensation that…

By Joseph Tito

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New Year Same Circus: Why January Resolutions Never Stick

You ever notice how January shows up every year like an overconfident personal trainer who’s never met you but is somehow convinced you’re about to become a whole new woman? Like, calm down, Brenda. I just survived December, which is basically The Hunger…

By Joseph Tito

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The Woman I Became When I Stopped Holding It Together

Trigger Warning: This article contains content about suicide There’s a fear that no one really talks about. Not to illness, heartbreak or grief, but to the deep, silent unraveling that happens when life as you know it begins to fall apart… bit by bit. For me,…

By Teresa Bird

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Crypto for Grown-Ups Who Can't Figure Out E-Transfers

Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Digital Monopoly Money Listen, I get it. When someone mentions "cryptocurrency," your brain probably does that thing where it short-circuits like a Windows 95 computer trying to run TikTok. Same energy as when…

By Joseph Tito

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Bif Naked on Heart Surgery Divorce and Starting at 54

The punk icon who found euphoria on an operating table talks death doulas, divorce gratitude, and why her failing marriage hurt more than cancer By Joseph Tito | Between the Covers | November 2025 Bif Naked is cutting up her dog's food with her hands when I…

By Joseph Tito

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The Gen X Rebellion: Coming Home to Myself at Last

Have you noticed it too? How our generation, the Gen X women who were raised to be independent, resilient, and endlessly adaptable, are now quietly leading the most important rebellion of our lives? We may not be the loudest or the flashiest, but we are the…

By HENRIETA HANISKOVA

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The Quiet Rebellion: Building a Media Empire in Pakistan

I built my media company in Pakistan when everyone told me not to. Pakistan’s youth proved them wrong. When I told people I was building my media company in Pakistan, the warnings came fast. Be careful. Why would you do that? Do you have security? My…

By Joseph Tito

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Asma Jahangir: The Woman Who Said No First in Pakistan

Every rebellion needs an origin story. Asma Jahangir is Pakistan’s. At 18, she marched to the Supreme Court to demand her father’s release from military detention. He had been imprisoned for speaking against the government’s actions in East Pakistan, what the…

By Joseph Tito

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Women Women in the News

The Thirty-Two: When TV Chose Kites Over a Massacre

At 1:38 PM on February 6, 2026, CCTV captured the exact moment a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the Khadija Tul Kubra Mosque in Islamabad. Security guards had stopped him at the entrance. He opened fire. Then he walked into a hall packed with Shia…

By Joseph Tito

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Winning Her Way: How Melissa Grelo Redefines Success

THE NOTE WAITING IN HER HOTEL ROOM Melissa Grelo was on the brink of one of the boldest moves of her career - a wellness retreat built on her Aging Powerfully platform, the passion project she’s nurtured alongside running a podcast, parenting an 11-year-old,…

By Joseph Tito

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Elvira Caria: Four Decades of Refusing to Play Nice

After 40 years of fighting for her voice in broadcasting, Elvira Caria lost the only title that ever mattered to her: Matthew's mom There's a street named after Elvira Caria in Vaughan. She didn't pay for it, she'll tell you right away. Awards line her walls,…

By Joseph Tito

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Bif Naked on Heart Surgery Divorce and Starting at 54

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