WNBA Reflects, Advances Gains for Women

The branded blue and green T-shirts are washed and folded, stored on a closet shelf for another year. The stylish waist-length sweatshirt with blue-and-white cuffs may come out for a college game, but the colors are wrong for the Golden Gophers women’s basketball team whose pre-season games will … Continue reading →

What I Learned From My ‘Week Without Driving’

How would your life change if driving wasn’t an option? That is the question posed by Week Without Driving, an annual campaign — running the first week of October in 2026 — that aims to help those of us who do own a car interrogate our transportation habits. And learn to practice new … Continue reading →

Advice on Being a Grandparent: Don’t Give Advice!

It’s been over a year since Arthur’s birth on July 22, 2025 — and I still smile when I see how my home has morphed into a grandma’s house. A little here, a little there: one purchase, one donated castoff, one lucky discovery at a time. The metal wagon with fat wheels, perfect for storing … Continue reading →

Should You Keep Social Media After Retirement?

One aspect of retirement that I never considered was how it would affect my profile on social media. Nearly a year after leaving the last of my two part-time jobs, now working a contract gig that averages only 20 hours a month, I’m not sure I see the point in continuing to create and curate … Continue reading →

Don’t Patronize Products that Patronize You

At a time of life when my income is increasingly limited, with a set monthly amount from Social Security, a small pension from my years as a newspaper journalist and whatever I can scratch up from contract work, everyone is pitching me to spend money on stuff I neither want nor need. The … Continue reading →

The Middle Stages: Between Midlife and Old Age

By Amy Gage

What I Learned From My ‘Week Without Driving’

Advice on Being a Grandparent: Don’t Give Advice!