Telogen effluvium: How to manage hair loss and its emotional fallout
For most of my life, my hair was my thing. When nothing fit or my makeup wasn’t just right, my hair could pull me through. Entering the pandemic as a recent widow, making sense of all of the...
View ArticleHow to manage hot flashes: common triggers and sweat treatments
For those of us *blessed* with hot flashes, one moment you’re cool as a cucumber, and wham! It’s as though someone lit a fuse, ignited a fire, or flipped on a furnace at your core. Before you know it,...
View ArticleOdele: Clean, affordable hair care that feels bougie as hell
Say hello to my new favorite masstige hair care, Odele Beauty. Women-owned and operated in Minneapolis, Odele developed from its founders’ desire to streamline product overload with a premium brand...
View ArticleWhy I started smoking weed in my 40s
Always late to the party, I started enjoying weed in my 40s. Laced attempts in my youth and a punk-rock preference for alcohol distanced me from cannabis and the Birkenstock-up kids smoking it. Stoned...
View ArticleMeet Linda Wattier, the Perennial helping women embrace wholehearted living
Hi, I’m Linda. Even though I still identify as a MidstHer, now that I’m 64, I also enjoy being a Perennial, part of a group of people defined by how they work, learn, and live instead of when they...
View ArticleMy dirty little secret: Estee Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair
When I turned 30, my Auntie Kathleen gifted me my first bottle of beauty cult classic Estee Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair — with a knowing wink of what was to come. Now 17 years later, I still...
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