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Dear Dana: The World Is A Scary Place Lately. How Can I Manage My Anxiety About It?

Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana: I’m having a rough time lately. It seems like every other week, there’s another horrific shooting or […]

On Talking Politics With My 5-Year-Old

Our kids don’t need to know yet about all of life’s twists and turns, hopes and heartaches. But I can’t help but feel a little pride when my daughter rattles off the names of the candidates or gives her opinion of each member of the line-up. “So Hillary Clinton won last night for the Democrats,” […]

Dear Donald Trump: This Is What Abortion Looks Like

Have you had the chance to sit and chat with a woman who was forced to give birth to a child? Hi, Donald. Can I call you Donald, at least for now? I loved “The Apprentice.” My mom and stepfather (let’s call him dad because I do) watched too. Sometimes when we got together we’d chat […]

Women Are Already Punished For Seeking Abortions

Punishing women for seeking abortions is nothing new. But thanks for the reminder, Mr. Trump. Many people, including a number of Republicans, profess to being scared and shocked by Donald Trump’s recent comments about abortion. Donald Trump said in a new interview Wednesday that he would support banning abortions, as well as “some form of […]

Why I’m Staying Out Of The Political Fray On Facebook

Folks invested in the U.S. presidential race are picking sides in an O.K. Corral sort of way—reason and civility be damned—and it’s getting ugly. These are particularly polarizing times. I mean polarizing to the extreme, if that’s not too obvious a redundancy. Folks invested in the U.S. presidential race are picking sides in an O.K. […]

What You Missed While Everyone Was Talking About Trump’s Small Hands

As long as 1 in 5 women in the United States falls victim to sexual assault in her lifetime, it’s hard to argue that there’s a place for “get on your knees” innuendo. A significant amount of ink has been spilled over the last week discussing the size of Donald Trump’s…hands…and what the increasingly vulgar […]

Does Donald Trump Embody The Worst Of What Humanity Has Become?

I’m tired of watching Americans baffle the world with repeated displays of callous, uninformed derision at the expense of its own improvement. What if we’re all wrong about Donald Trump? What if he has no intention of becoming president, but is holding a mirror up to warn America of what it’s becoming, instead? Think about […]