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When I first started writing about my relationship to dance, I was careful not to call myself a dancer. Or I put “dancer” in quotes. Not a real dancer, I hoped the quotes made clear. I was a person, a ...

Though The Official Release Party of a Showgirl is playing exclusively in movie theaters this weekend and clocks in at 89 minutes long, it’s not quite a movie. (However, for anyone wondering, I ...

After noticing withdrawals of several hundred dollars from our savings accounts multiple times a month, I learned that my ...

First things first: Ending a marriage is “worth doing” if you want to end the marriage. No one needs to weigh in on this and ...

They went to her son and my two kids to ask for housing and care help. All the kids are scraping by with roommates and ...

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On first glance, Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, did not head into the government shutdown in a ...

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My husband was out of town on business, so that meant having my mother-in-law, “Ruth” watch our two girls, “Indigo,” 6, and “Rain,” 8, while I was gone. The moment I returned home, Indigo and Rain ...

When I confronted my brother, he admitted that he had been having an affair with Delia—who is, again, his wife’s sister!—for ...