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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Angela Garbes
Last month, it was my paternal grandmother’s 105th birthday. It’s unlikely that we’ll have many more chances to visit her, so my husband, daughters and I visited the Philippines to celebrate – my first trip since February 2020. Despite being born in the US and having lived here since, I still consider the Philippines home. I’ve made the journey at least a dozen times, and it always feels like I’m visiting another version of me only accessible in these islands.
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2 weeks ago | 
citylights.com | Angela Garbes
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Angela Garbes
Four years ago, I was thrown for a loop by a wave of strange new symptoms including night sweats, an expanding midsection, dry skin, and a strong and sudden intolerance for noise. I suspected they had something to do with the neurological and physiological changes of perimenopause but was frustrated by the absence of clear answers about what was happening to my middle-aged body.
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2 months ago | 
keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor |Rachel Cohen |Angela Garbes |Elissa Strauss
NOTE: I received this comment on the story you’re about to read: “I think your article just summarized the concept of reproductive justice, which is a feminist framework created by Black feminists in the 1990s, if I’m not mistaken.” After falling down a Google rabbit hole, I can attest that the commenter is not mistaken! It reminds me that any time I think I have a “new” take on feminism, there is probably at least one Black woman who said it first. And said it better. And said it decades ago.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Angela Garbes
This fall, my husband and I worked with a family law attorney to write our wills and advance directives. We attempted this 10 years ago, after our first child was born, but abandoned the project amid sleep deprivation and the overwhelm of new responsibilities. Now that we are the parents of two no-longer-little kids, and more accustomed to the many losses and logistics of adulthood, we decided it was time to see it through.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Angela Garbes
A few weeks ago, getting dressed to take my kids to a comics festival, I put on a pair of tapered maroon jersey pants. My 10-year-old looked at me and said: “Whoa, I’ve never seen you wear tight pants before!”They were hardly fitted, but it’s true that I favor my beloved elastic waist, barrel leg Ilana Kohn Abe pants, which make me feel more like myself than any other item of clothing I’ve owned. It’s taken decades to understand that, for me, comfort and style are intertwined.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Dave Barry |Angela Garbes |Melissa Greene |John Grogan |Charles Yu
Writers reflect on how political contests are playing out in their communities. By Dave Barry, Angela Garbes, Melissa Fay Greene, John Grogan and Charles YuOctober 30, 2024 at 6:30 a.m. EDTThis election cycle, we’ve invited writers from around the country to reflect on how the political contests are playing out in their communities. We’ll be publishing their accounts at key moments leading up to Election Day. This is the third set of dispatches. You can read their first three here, here and here.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
yourtango.com | Kerala Taylor |Angela Garbes
Editor's Note: This is a part of YourTango's Opinion section where individual authors can provide varying perspectives for wide-ranging political, social, and personal commentary on issues. I wasn’t sure whether or not I should ask my recently married coworker if he and his wife planned to have kids. It can be such a loaded question. What if he thought I was implying that they should have kids? What if they were trying and having trouble?
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
juliaturshen.substack.com | Julia Turshen |Angela Garbes |Caroline Chambers |Virginia Sole-Smith
Hi all! I am on my way home from a very fun week of book touring for WHAT GOES WITH WHAT. My mom came with me to Seattle and Chicago which was so sweet. She used to take me with her on a lot of her business trips when I was growing up and it was really fun to take her on one of mine. We got to have dinner with ! I got to go on local TV in Seattle and bragged about being a power lifter (lol).
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith |Angela Garbes
Julia is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author, and today we’re celebrating her brand new cookbook What Goes With What. WGWW is built on the simple premise that if we understand what makes food delicious, we can feed ourselves well. Nobody understands this better than Julia, who has been excavating the rules, limitations, and hidden diet mindset of food writing for years now, and in doing so, offers us all a better, more straightforward way to think about food and making meals happen.
