Becoming obsessed with two gay hockey players wasn’t exactly on my bingo card for 2026, but well, here we are. I heard early rumblings about Heated Rivalry, the new TV show on HBO about a secret romance between two professional hockey ...

I’ve always been a reader, and I look back fondly on my childhood devouring Anne of Green Gables and Boxcar Children. Reading for pleasure fluctuated in my twenties (social life and job stress often trumped leisure reading) and then again ...

What’s in a name? A lot, actually. Names carry a lot of meaning, which is one of the reasons why parents spend so much time thinking through what they should call their children. It’s common to name kids after family ...

In the dead of winter, I find it increasingly difficult to drag myself up from the couch and toward the kitchen. Coming up with winter dinner ideas feels like such a chore. By the time I finally do, it’s pitch ...

Just a few months after having a kid, my house had transformed entirely from a place that adults once inhabited to a bona fide playhouse with zero signs of sophistication. Gone were the reading nook and coffee station, replaced by ...

The bookworm inside me shriveled when my firstborn turned into a nap-striking toddler. I grieved that I could no longer find time to read. But one evening, after my second child was born, I had a brilliant idea—I could put ...

I love the promise of a new year. It’s an opportunity to make changes, big and small; a chance to pursue new goals and dreams; a fresh chapter in our life stories. In my 20s, I was the queen of resolutions, ...

I used to think: “I can handle this.” Two kids, a full-time job, and a home that always felt like a real-life sitcom. For years, I’d gotten used to sweeping up cereal crumbs at midnight, wiping toothpaste spots off the ...

The holiday season, wedding season, vacation season—I’m a fan of all the seasons, except for one. It’s the dreaded cold and flu season that occurs from fall to early spring, and it lasts way longer than I would like. As ...

The start of the New Year means a lot of different things—fresh starts, new goals—but for the dedicated bookworm, it’s also time to decide what they want to read this coming year. As someone who surpassed their reading goal and ...