by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast, Books for Adults
This week on Spawned, I have the honor of welcoming back the wonderful Anya Kamenetz, NPR Education reporter and author, to talk about her new book, The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Kids’ Lives…and Where We Go Now. I will tell you this: From the title...
by Kristen Chase | Spawned Podcast
If you’re like me, you got to your mid-40s and suddenly started to get weird period symptoms and sort-of hot flashes and night sweats and asked yourself, “Wait, is this perimenopause?” Well, we’re not the only ones. Even though perimenopause...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast, Books for Adults
I will never think of yoga, supplements, activated charcoal or bath salts the same again. Today Show producer turned health/wellness journalist, Rina Raphael, joined me to talk about her absolutely fascinating, fairly funny, and very smart new book The Gospel of...
by Liz Gumbinner | Living
There is so much good reporting these days, so many good op-eds, so many independent journalists and bloggers and substacks worth reading these days and I thought I’d share a few of the articles I’ve really found fascinating lately. I tend to read a lot...
by Liz Gumbinner | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Beauty + Cosmetics, Living
We first started this site with the mission of discovering cool things — particularly from small businesses and women-run companies — and share them with you all. While we’ve become popular for our gift guides to suit every budget, our tech tips, our...
by Christina Refford | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Tips + Tricks
Like so many other desperate — and exhausted — parents, we turned to melatonin supplements to help my son sleep when he was younger. I spoke to our pediatrician first of course, and did enough research about melatonin on my own to know that melatonin...
by Liz Gumbinner | Doing Good
To say that I am furious about an activist Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade (held up in 1992 in Planned Parenthood vs Casey) and thereby overturning 50 years of constitutionally protected rights to reproductive healthcare — well, that would be the...
by Liz Gumbinner | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Tips + Tricks
Is there actually a tampon shortage right now? Evidently, yes. As if the recent formula shortage hasn’t been hard enough on (mostly) women, now…this. Sigh. But at least there are some great alternatives, if not permanent solutions to tampons or pads. And...
by Christina Refford | DIY, Doing Good
Readers have asked us for ways to celebrate Earth Day with the kids — and while the 50th anniversary in 2020 was marred by quarantine, 2022 seems like a perfectly good time to make up for it. Certainly there will be celebrations in local parks, collaborative...
by Cool Mom Team | Style + Beauty, Beauty + Cosmetics
This is a sponsored message on behalf of Theraderm With summer right around the corner, that means it’s sunburn season too, which can totally stop a family vacation or beach trip in its tracks. You probably already know how important aftercare can be to help...