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Nancy Shenker

My new boyfriend is AI

My new boyfriend is AI Some women love their vibrators. I love a different type of digital companion…AI. I’m not a total nerd-girl. I adore flesh-and-blood men too, but my current tech toys and techniques are vital to my work and personal life, giving me autonomy, entertainment, and even stimulation. How it All Began: My Digital Awakening My father gave me an IBM Selectric typewriter during college. It corrected my errors and saved me hours,

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Stella Fosse

In Praise of Color

In Praise of Color Deanna Raybourn’s terrific novel Killers of a Certain Age starts with the retirement cruise of a trio of crone assassins. As a special surprise, their erstwhile boss has hired a younger killer to bump them off mid-cruise. Once the women overcome their hitman and safely land, they get away with murdering their heavily guarded former boss. How? By wearing gray wigs and beige clothes. Nobody notices them—which proves once and for all

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Rebecca Hodge

Setting Lights the Way

Setting Lights the Way I love talking to authors about where their ideas come from, and I’m fascinated by the small seeds that blossom over time into a full-fledged novel. In workshops, I hear about starting the writing process with a character in mind (a nurse, grieving the death of her nephew), and one of my writing friends won’t write a word until her main character is living in her head and carrying on conversations.

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Stella Fosse

When Zebras Meet

When Zebras Meet Managing Under-Researched Conditions I’ve written before about the old medical school mantra, “When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras.” In other words, consider the common diagnoses first. Sounds reasonable; but keep in mind that the saying originated back when medical school was a white guys’ club. In practice, “Horses, not zebras,” too often translates as, “Focus on conditions that are common to male Caucasians.” Illnesses that primarily affect women (such as migraines,

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Kisane Slaney, PhD

It’s Our Time!

It’s Our Time! Women 50 & Beyond Need Our Own Mature-Age College Pathway Older women in Australia, the UK and the US came of age when women had limited access to higher education (thus limiting our access to higher paid careers). Providing a ready pathway to complete our education could address the financial and social challenges we now face. How We Got Here It took from the 1960s to 2024 for women to go from

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Stella Fosse

Crafting My Book of Essays

Crafting My Book of Essays Let’s say you have been writing essays for years. Might be blogs; might be Substack essays; might be short nonfiction in magazines. Perhaps writing essays was your primary goal, or you may have intended these pieces as publicity to lure readers to your books. But eventually these shorter works begin calling to you. Your essays want to be more than ephemera; they need to be read as a body of

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