This is the great irony of our live-to-work culture: We are actually less productive and less efficient when we don’t make an effort to wind down. Earlier this month, the Internet was rife with outrage over this subway ad from Fiverr. It features a young woman with hollowed cheekbones and matted hair, and praises a […]
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: My wife is pregnant (due in a few months), and we’re stoked/excited/fearful/etc. about the prospect of having […]
Most nights we fought, and there was a constant tension between us, a tension that felt confusing, because we were working together to raise our baby, but pulling apart in so many other ways. The sippy cup spout was still gunky, smeared with the remnants of a half-squished date. I stared at it in disbelief, […]
When we take to the Internet and call a tired mother a drug addict and a terrible parent, when we deem mistakes to be crimes, we compound someone’s pain to an unbearable degree. “What’s the craziest thing you ever did while in the throes of sleep deprivation?” someone posted in my online mothers’ group. Thus […]
Mothers are two and a half times more likely than fathers to cover the nightshift of caretaking. Arianna Huffington has deemed sleep the next big feminist issue, because women are significantly more sleep deprived than men. Without enough sleep, she argues, we cannot reach our full potential as a sex: “A nation of sleepy women is […]
I promised myself that if I wasn’t pregnant with a second child by the time I turned 40, I’d put my ovaries to bed. My 40th birthday was last month. And a deal’s a deal. On the occasion of my husband, Erik’s, 40th birthday, we sat on the deck of a restaurant that overlooked the glittering […]
