This Is How to Survive the Holidays
With most of us vaxxed and boosted, some of us are anxious about gathering with our FOX-watching families again. Can we set boundaries without being accused of "canceling" them?
Family
I’m Raising Kids—They’re Baby Goats!
This 30-something-year-old writer always wanted to be a mother, but never expected to find family among a herd of goats on a Vermont cheese farm.
“Whatever She’s Making, I Don’t Want Any”
In this exclusive excerpt from her poignant new memoir, TREYF, Elissa Altman's mother demonstrates over brunch with her in-laws that being difficult isn't the same thing as being wrong.
Simone Biles’s Story Reminds Us How Little We Understand About Adoption
Adoption tales aren’t about villains. They’re about real people making very difficult decisions—a fact this writer, whose background mirrors the Olympian's, knows well.
Dear Julie: “I Moved to the ’Burbs and Became the Odd Woman Out”
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps a city girl make nice and lays down the law on tipping and the dinner date that does it all wrong.
I Donated My Dead Body to Give My Life Purpose
At 40, the writer—single, childless, and employed but not career bound—secretly feared dying alone having accomplished little. So she decided to do something about it. (But not today.)
Dear Julie: “One of My Mom Friends Is Gossiping About Another’s Daughter”
DAME’s Friendkeeper lays down the law about libel and tells a woman how to deal with a rudely frugal friend.
Does Wanting Only One Child Make Me a Bad Mother?
The writer always assumed she'd want more than one kid … until she didn’t. The feelings that arose about family, fear, marriage, and career were more complicated than she could’ve imagined.
Dear Julie: “My Best Friend Started Dating My Brother!”
DAME’s Friendkeeper untangles some family ties and helps an addict face the truth of a toxic friendship.
The Night I Found My Mother on the Closet Floor
When the writer's family moved to the Southwest, she and her mother got more than desert landscapes: They got a violent Christmas Eve that would mark their time there forever.