We diminish our shared humanity when we insist on thinking of heroes as exceptional. Heroes are ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances.
Published September 7, 2021
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A selection of Jessica DuLong’s features, interviews, profiles, essays, and collaborations.
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The pandemic has made it hard for parents of teens and tweens to know what's weighing on our kids or how to help, but psychologist Lisa Damour gives advice on what to do
Published August 31, 2021
Millions of Americans are grieving loved ones taken by Covid-19. Yet even outside of a pandemic — with its staggering losses of lives, homes, economic security and normalcy — grief is hard work.
"The funny thing about grief is that no one ever feels like they're doing it the right way," ...
Published July 18, 2021
With chapters on loving yourself, yoga poses, cultural appropriation, "white guilt" and more, Jessamyn Stanley's "Yoke" explores the "yoga of the everyday," applying lessons learned on the mat to the challenges of living.
Published July 10, 2021
Pandemic deaths, insurrections, terrorism, police brutality and hate crimes force parents to consider sharing traumatizing news with our children. A 9/11 responder considers how to do it.
Published May 15, 2021
Even nonphysicists who have been stuck in endless lockdown loops are increasingly aware of a different sort of time, dubbed "Blursday." Is quarantine revealing time's less linear and more authentic plastic, elastic nature? Author Susanne Paola Antonetta weighs in.
Published May 13, 2021
Former editor-in-chief of Seventeen and CosmoGIRL! magazines, Atoosa Rubenstein, writes about vulnerability, leaving publishing, self-love, breakups, infidelity, and surviving molestation.
Published May 10, 2021
Author Anna Malaika Tubbs unearthed groundbreaking material about Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin -- the mothers of MLK Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin -- who've gone remarkably unrecognized despite their significant contributions to history. Tubbs shares how their stories have informed her own journey as a Black mom
Published May 9, 2021
A Q&A with Mary-Frances Winters, whose "Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body and Spirit," documents measures concerning economics, criminal justice and education, as well as the physical and mental health of Black Americans. Winters illuminates the myriad dire consequences of living while Black in the US.
Published April 5, 2021
Interview with author Emma Brown, whose new book, "To Raise A Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood," reveals that dismantling rigid concepts of masculinity is the next step toward true social progress on gender.
Published March 25, 2021
The complete action plan from Ed Slott, "the best source of IRA advice" (Wall Street Journal), to help you make sure your 401(k)s, IRAs, and retirement savings aren't depleted by taxes by the time you need to use them.
Published March 2, 2021
In "What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness — Lessons from a Body in Revolt" Tessa Miller shares life lessons she absorbed while learning to grieve the self she'd once been and the future she might have had en route to accepting who she was.
Published February 17, 2021