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The path to success is paved with... siblings?
NYT journalist, Susan Dominus, believes our parents' influence is less important than that of our siblings. The Family Dynamic, her new book, maps out…
Apr 30
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Moving vans and thwarted plans
Since leaving college, I've moved 18 times within 3 different countries. Most were forced. All were stressful. But this move, combining two families…
Apr 14
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A Webby for Debbie?
Leaning into my long-ago retired childhood nickname to let you know some good news. But, like, make it rhyme.
Apr 3
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Deborah Copaken
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March 2025
Planning a wedding during the apocalypse
Tablescapes, hellscapes, and why celebrating love in a time of hate in America is not unseemly. It's the only antidote.
Mar 24
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Deborah Copaken
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Probiotics and UTI prevention
After a lifetime of UTIs that turned debilitating in menopause, I have finally landed on a several-step precautionary protocol that (knock wood) has…
Mar 20
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Deborah Copaken
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12 life lessons from 59 years of mistakes
I have some thoughts. About everything I did wrong and how to fix them.
Mar 11
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Married women: now they're going after your right to vote
Did you change your name when you got married? Do you know where your birth certificate is? If the answer to the first question is yes, the second, no…
Mar 10
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Psst: Gen-X and young Boomers, go get your measles booster ASAP
If you were born between 1957 and 1968 and were vaccinated with the inactivated (killed) virus version of the MMR vaccine, you've probably lost your…
Mar 5
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Psst: Gen-X and young Boomers, go get your measles booster ASAP
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February 2025
Ashes to ashes
My best friend was French. Last week, we scattered her ashes on France's northern coast as 80 years of friendship between the U.S. and Europe turned to…
Feb 24
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Do SSRIs cause bone loss in menopausal women?
No one knows. Yet. But Dr. Marcella Walker is researching the topic at Columbia, and, in an era when the word 'woman' gets your NSF grant flagged, it's…
Feb 6
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Do SSRIs cause bone loss in menopausal women?
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January 2025
First they came for the scientists
Clinical trials canceled; NIH gagged; NSF on pause; an abrupt silence at the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; HIV drugs denied: what is to be…
Jan 29
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Dear Neil Gaiman: consensual ≠ consent
Being in a consensual relationship does not mean one consents to everything the other demands. Particularly in an unequal power dynamic. Related: NDAs…
Jan 20
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