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From the April 3, 2020 issue of Further Want to hear a story about hope? One of my best friends got diagnosed with breast cancer in early March. By the time she could schedule surgery, California hospitals were preparing for the coronavirus onslaught. The Friday before her Monday procedure, her doctors told her that she …
From the March 27, 2020 issue of Further If you’re freaking out about COVID-19, it’s not just you. Each day brings a crush of new information that reinforces the precariousness and unpredictability of our situation. As a result, we’re spending more and more time glued to our screens to find signs of hope and safety …
From the March 18, 2020 issue of Further Sure, Covid-19 presents a novel situation — along with the concept of “social distancing” — but it’s not our generation’s first rodeo when it comes to dealing with isolation and adversity. Gen X are the O.G. home warriors, having been the first generation of latchkey kids. We …
From the March 12, 2020 issue of Further There’s a sickness that’s been spreading for a while now, one that’s infecting us all. It clouds our judgment, compelling us to act out of fear and outrage. Stoked by the media, encouraged by even close family and friends, it’s the impulse to react without stopping to …
From the March 4, 2020 issue of Further The night before we dropped my daughter off for the start of her college freshman year, our family stayed at a trendy boutique hotel. In our room, instead of a bedside bible, there was a copy of Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements. While I’m a big …
From the February 26, 2020 issue of Further We’ve seen a lot of pithy endurance slogans in our time: No pain, no gain. Get out of your comfort zone. Keep calm and carry on. Sure we were pegged as slackers when we were young, but the truth is we’re no strangers to hard work. We …
From the February 11, 2020 issue of Further Ours is a sandwich generation in more ways than one. When it comes to communication, our parents were brought up on the idea that “children should be seen, not heard.” And so, we raised our kids to “use your words.” What’s missing in that equation is listening, …
From the February 5, 2020 issue of Further For all of us, the tragic loss of Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter and seven others, is unthinkable. And yet, at the top of our collective consciousness is the rise of Kobe’s legacy. Beyond his accomplishments (legendary 20-year NBA career, Olympic medals, best-selling books, and Oscar-winning …
From the January 29, 2020 issue of Further Growing up, my mom had a fridge magnet that said, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” From a kid’s perspective, life is unimaginable without play. As grown-ups, we have a terrible habit of thinking that making space to …
From the January 22, 2020 issue of Further In more meh news from the slippery slope of midlife dissatisfaction, there’s now an exact age where people worldwide hit bottom in their 40s, and it’s 47.2. This isn’t exactly ground-breaking; the research comes from Dartmouth economics professor David Blanchflower, who has been investigating the correlation between …
Full disclosure: I haven’t slept much in the last week since Ada Calhoun’s new book on women’s midlife crisis, Why We Can’t Sleep, dropped, and one of the most on-point voices of our generation, Prozac Nation author Elizabeth Wurtzel, went silent. Truthfully, I haven’t slept all that much in the last couple of decades, but …
From the January 8, 2020 issue of Further Great news for Gen X women: new research shows we’re driving the “wellness travel trend,” heading off to far-flung places to decompress and destress. (And you thought that was just the plot of Girls Trip 2.) Better news for those of us who don’t have the time …