I am not one of those people who constantly updates her home’s décor. I keep it clean and child-friendly for our seven grandchildren, and cozy, I hope, for everyone who walks through our door. I have never dreamed about gut renovations or even rotated furniture. I have seldom fretted over paint colors. Our downstairs has…
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It turns out that tiny strips of silicone can help reduce the appearance of scars. You place them on top of the wound at night, and over time the scar fades. I wasn’t home a few hours from the ob-gyn before ordering a jumbo pack online. The sooner it came, the sooner I could start…
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Trigger Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual trauma. I’ve recently become one of those people who is into reiki—aka “energy healing,” a form of alternative medicine. This is a complete shock to me—I generally raise my eyebrows at mentions of “chakras” and “attuning”—but I’m now that girl. Whenever it comes up in conversation that…
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A fertility doctor, an ultrasound technician, and 17 interns walk into a vagina… There I was at the fertility clinic. Signed in, sitting there in the waiting room. Waiting. I’ve been here before—just a couple of days ago, and a couple of days before that, actually. And yet here I am again. There are other…
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Selena Gomez is back on the charts with her first new songs in years, “Lose You to Love Me” and “Look at Her Now.” Fans wasted no time combing through the lyrics of the singles for references to Gomez’s breakup from Justin Bieber last year. And while Gomez hasn’t directly addressed her songs’ ties to…
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Serena Williams is continuing another epic run at Wimbledon. She’ll play in the semifinals on Thursday (July 11) against Barbora Strýcová in hopes of making her 32nd Grand Slam final. (She’s also still in the hunt for the mixed doubles titles with British star Andy Murray.) As always, she’s shown off her incredible skill, fitness,…
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