I've had a problem with my legs that's difficult to describe. Even though my body and mind are

Last week, I was in a chic restaurant with colleagues blustering through semi-fake smiles, feeling acutely

For two decades I’ve engaged in truly odd behavior to quell a mysterious problem: At night, my legs just

It sounded like a scam. I was on the cusp of shelling out a large sum of money for someone who wasn’t

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My nerves buzzed as I waited for my 23-year-old friend I’d never met in person to join me for dinner.

never felt particularly attached to my maiden name. When I met my first husband in my mid-20s, I held

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I inhaled before the tears welled. I wanted to tell him I was always sure I’d be a mom, but at

Through the windows of an express train from Kyoto, Japan, to a whisky distillery on Mount

I was enjoying myself at a business dinner when a colleague leaned in and caught me off guard.

I spent over two decades learning hard lessons about love. Even after spending countless hours on

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