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  • FAST X Parents Guide Movie Review

    Fast X is a wild ride that goes full speed ahead until the very end. Check out the details in my parents guide movie review. Fast X is released in...
  • Adventure Friends, May We Be Them and May We Know Them

    One of the best things about getting outside is being able to share the experience with friends. It could be purely for socialization, or to distra...
  • A Massive Leak Spotlights the Extremism of an Anti-Trans Medical Group

    Michelle Cretella had a problem. In 2018, Cretella, then-president of the American College of Pediatricians, was speaking to the group’s board of d...
  • The Bookshelf

    After filling 9,000 seats and selling thousands of books at last year’s inaugural Santa Fe Literary Festival, organizers returned ready, co-founder...
  • Why California’s COVID unemployment mess isn’t over yet

    By Lauren Hepler | CalMatters It’s been 22 months and three unemployment appeals since Nicolas Allen’s last job in Fresno. In the time it has ...
  • How to Influence Instead of Control

    As shared in last week’s newsletter about the Control Conundrum, I have learned that the transition to summer brings out my control issues in full ...
  • 7 Toxic Phrases Parents Need to Stop Saying to Their Sons

    Parents say a lot of words to their kids. That’s the job, after all — to tell them things, to teach them lessons, to prepare them, protect them, an...
  • Succession Finally Dropped The Bomb On Shiv And Tom, And It’s Going To Get Messy

    This post contains spoilers for season 4, episode 8 of "Succession." There are no healthy relationships in the hit HBO series "Succession," but per...
  • 80 Hilariously Relatable Memes From The ‘Sarcasm Only’ Instagram Page (New Pics)

    Ah, a thunderstorm. The weather is absolutely gorgeous today! Shall we go for a walk? If you constantly find yourself suppressing the urge to spit...
  • The long decay of Van Nuys Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley

    On Monday last, I drove to Van Nuys/Sherman Oaks Park for a pickup softball game. I left the house at 8 a.m., which should have left plenty of time...
  • Lessons From the Forest

    By Tiffany Owens Reed My husband and I have birthdays one week apart; he jokes this means I technically get two birthdays, since I’m the one most l...
  • How Ukraine Went From New Kids On The Eurovision Block To One Of Its Strongest Competitors

    A selection of Ukraine's biggest ever success stories at the Eurovision Song Contest In all the excitement around the UK hosting this year’s Eurov...