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This genius subscription service ensures you never run out of replacement air or water filters again.

This genius subscription service ensures you never run out of replacement air or water filters again.

by Cool Mom Staff | Living, Tips + Tricks

We’re big fans of those simple joys, like knowing you have spare batteries, a working pen, or a fresh new water filter replacement right when you need it. But unlike batteries, which you can just grab pretty much anywhere, it can be a hassle tracking down the...
COVID in the house: How to best prepare yourself and your family

COVID in the house: How to best prepare yourself and your family

by Kristen Chase | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Tips + Tricks

After two and a half years, we finally had COVID in the house. I’m certainly grateful for science (we’re all fully vaccinated and boosted) because the folks (including me) who were infected had relatively mild cases. And while I knew that at some point we...
5 simple things I’m doing to stay calm, centered, and not lose my *$&t this year.

5 simple things I’m doing to stay calm, centered, and not lose my *$&t this year.

by Liz Gumbinner | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Tips + Tricks

The past few years have been — as if you didn’t live through them too — kind of hellish. Okay, very hellish. You don’t need me to share the many many articles about how much work moms in particularly have been doing to balance everyone’s...
4 New Year’s resolutions you can actually tackle, with lots of resources to help

4 New Year’s resolutions you can actually tackle, with lots of resources to help

by Kristen Chase | Tips + Tricks

January 1 is my favorite holiday, and making New Year’s resolutions is my favorite way to celebrate. Okay, that and cleaning out my closets! (I know, I’m a party animal). I know that there are various approaches to New Year’s resolutions, many of...
The impact of Covid on kids: Anya Kamenetz on what we know and what we don’t yet | Spawned Ep 285

The impact of Covid on kids: Anya Kamenetz on what we know and what we don’t yet | Spawned Ep 285

by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Adults, Podcast, Thinking : Parent

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...
What you need to know about perimenopause, with Dr. Makeba Williams | Spawned Episode 284

What you need to know about perimenopause, with Dr. Makeba Williams | Spawned Episode 284

by Kristen Chase | 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...
The Gospel of Wellness:  Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care, by Rina Raphael | Spawned Ep 283

The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care, by Rina Raphael | Spawned Ep 283

by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Adults, Podcast, Thinking : Parent

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...
What Liz is reading this week: Links to check out, from dream analysis to shocking truths about “maternal instinct”

What Liz is reading this week: Links to check out, from dream analysis to shocking truths about “maternal instinct”

by Liz Gumbinner | Best of the Web, Thinking : Parent

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...
Donate to an abortion fund. You’ll save a life.

Donate to an abortion fund. You’ll save a life.

by Liz Gumbinner | Doing Good, Thinking : Parent

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...
Period underwear to menstrual cups: 4 tampon alternatives we’ve tried that can save you during the tampon shortage

Period underwear to menstrual cups: 4 tampon alternatives we’ve tried that can save you during the tampon shortage

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...
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