Artwork©Ivan Kopylov/123rf For decades, women have been taught to interpret the changes of midlife through a narrow biological lens. When desire fades, when energy collapses, when emotional resilience thins, the explanation offered is almost always hormonal. Estrogen...

Photo courtesy Fred Rogers Productions ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ Getting YouTube Channel For First Time by Jesse Whittock, Deadline Fred Rogers Productions and Little Dot Studios have teamed to bring Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood to a dedicated YouTube channel – the...

Photo©peopleimages12/123rf We once went searching for a school that could help one of our kids thrive. He was bright, brilliant, actually, but his ADHD meant that traditional classrooms felt like cages. Teachers saw distraction; we saw intensity. Schools saw...

Photo courtesy Organic Consumers Association Hidden in the 2026 Farm Bill is Section 12006 — a provision that would wipe out animal welfare laws in 15 states overnight. Laws that voters passed by wide margins to ban the cruelest factory farm practices: pregnant pigs...

Photo©thvideo/123rf Nothing like this spring has been seen in generations. We are on the cusp of a reimagined world. On April 25th, Uranus returns to Gemini. The last time Uranus was in Gemini was during the WWII era. The time before that coincided with the United...

Photo courtesy Bill Strubbe Saturday morning breaks clear and chilly, puff clouds scudding across the brilliant blue. From my porch the view of Mt. Tavor rising from the Jezreel Valley, the Benedictine Monastery of the Transfiguration perched atop, is stunning. To the...

Photo©sounds/123rf It was a Sunday afternoon when I received the call from my mom. She usually checked in on the weekends to catch up. I miss those calls from my mother, as she passed a few years back, but it’s the memories you hold onto. There is one memory I recall...

Photo©ValeriiHoncharuk/123rf Teacher ‘Refusing To Pay $175/Hour’ For Therapy Shares The No-Cost Mental Health Resources They Use Instead by Emily Shiffer, Upworthy Mental health therapy in the United States is expensive. According to a 2024 study that analyzed over...

Photo©thevisualsyouneed/123rf I don’t remember the day I stopped enjoying ruminating about the suffering from my past. My emotional wound had become my best friend, my confidant, from an early age. I had gotten used to the idea that the discomfort I lived with inside...

Artwork©WarangkanaBunyarittongchai/123rf Have you ever felt like your heart was breaking? Can you recall a time in your life when you experienced a breakup or divorce? Maybe someone treated you harshly or caused you pain in some way. Perhaps you were bullied as a...