Part One in a new series on smart-phone programs that have earned must-have status from real, grown-up women.

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Like many websites these days—The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and National Public Radio, to name a few—we’ve been rethinking our site and how it’s [...]

For many of us, the word “date” reminds us of nervous high-school moments, our first dinner with our eventual mate, that first time after a divorce we agreed to have [...]

(Many observant WVFC readers are already fans of Julia Kay, who first told us of her Daily Portrait Project a year ago and this fall shared vivid memories of many Septembers. [...]

@ebertchicago’s comment five minutes ago: No Farrah Fawcett in the memorial tribute? Major fail. A few minutes later: No Farrah in the memorial. They have a whole lot of ’splaining [...]

‘Tis the week of the season when we often allow the lists to dominate and permit anxiety the role of dominant feeling. More put-upon than under the spell of what [...]

Folks give and get presents all year long but, but judging by the number of recent searches for last year’s gift suggestions on my site, Broadway & Me, the intensity [...]

December temperatures are sending those of us in the East running off to our sock drawer and wondering if those wool tights we bought last year are now a) [...]

I’m not too sure how it all started. Perhaps finding friends on Facebook, more than two years after I joined (declaring myself The Oldest Person there), had finally reached an [...]

Our  Halloween poem comes from a time two centuries after the Scottish witches, below, were first evoked. Janet Little (1759–1813), known to her readers as “the Scotch milkmaid,” wrote in [...]