Strategies for Another Sober HolidayI’ve mostly gotten used to it but there’s still a mental mountain to climbMay 31, 2021May 31, 2021
Now That Botox Is The New Normal, Normal Aging Looks WeirdA tale of two celebrity InstagramsMay 20, 202176May 20, 202176
Published inGENEvery Woman I Know Had a Teacher Like Blake BaileyThere is rage, yes, but also endless disappointmentApr 30, 202112Apr 30, 202112
A Letter to My Best Friend, On Finding Out She’s PregnantYes, motherhood can be a private cataclysm, but I know you’ll be okayApr 23, 20211Apr 23, 20211
Published inHuman PartsWhy ‘Passionate’ Relationships Are Often Just Toxic RelationshipsIt took healthy love to appreciate the abuse I had excusedApr 16, 20213Apr 16, 20213
What It Means to Be an Adult ChildA conversation about growing up in an alcoholic home with Andrea Ashley, host of the Adult Child podcastApr 9, 20211Apr 9, 20211
Published inHuman PartsWelcome Back, CodependencyThe term went mainstream in the ’80s and ’90s, and it’s carried a stigma ever sinceMar 26, 20211Mar 26, 20211
Why Nothing is More Satisfying than an Addiction MemoirAnd why ‘The Love Story of the Century’ is one of the best I’ve readMar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021
Published inHuman PartsTo Renew Your Friendships, Be Radically TransparentWhen I revealed deeply personal details of my life in my memoir, my friendships changed in ways I never expectedMar 11, 20219Mar 11, 20219
The Secret Feminist History of the Temperance MovementThe radical women behind the original “dump him” discourseMar 5, 2021Mar 5, 2021
Published inForge12-Step Strategies Can Help Anyone Through ThisThese principles are about so much more than sobrietyApr 14, 20204Apr 14, 20204
Published inForgeWhat to Read, Watch, and Listen to When You’re Sober CuriousThis is the sober-curiosity canon — created almost entirely by womenMar 20, 20207Mar 20, 20207
Published inForgeLooks Like I Picked the Right Year to Stop DrinkingSobriety gives you a foundation for handling random difficulty, including the end of the worldMar 13, 20207Mar 13, 20207
Published inForgeA New Way to Recover From Creative BurnoutThe underappreciated — and often feminized — labor that undergirds everyday life is essential to true creativityJun 19, 201910Jun 19, 201910
Published inTimelineThis was the only refugee camp in America for Jews fleeing the NazisRoosevelt’s effort to help came at the end of the war, but still spared a thousand livesJun 22, 201811Jun 22, 201811
Published inTimelineThese Berkeley hippies just wanted to build a park. Then things got violentThe People’s Park was supposed to be a fun project, until Reagan sent almost 800 police officers to stop itMay 10, 20185May 10, 20185
Published inTimelineThese trendsetting lesbian lovers fled 1920s America for Paris and lived their best lifeSolita Solano and Janet Flanner, bored with American patriarchy, created their own pathMay 10, 20184May 10, 20184
Published inTimelineThis badass journalist was only 27 when she broke the story of the centuryArmed with nothing but a toothbrush, a typewriter, and a revolver, Clare Hollingworth became a pioneering war reporterMay 7, 20181May 7, 20181