“This menopause business is not turning out the way I’d hoped,” writes Michelle Slatalla this week in the New York Times.

How many of us have said that?

In fact, it’s what inspired this website.

“Daily Portrait Project” artist Julia Kay talks about how to handle the flow of personal information online, in a week when things go badly wrong.

“I’m 50 years old and single,” says Joan, a woman I know socially. “I’m fit, attractive, and solvent.  I like the company of men and have lots of relationships with [...]

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 of us remember the day we first ran across Our Bodies, Ourselves, as something of a revelation; perhaps you even picked up the more recent edition of the same [...]

I remember everything, or at least the things that matter. I remember every pore of his skin, the encysted bump he had on the back of his head, the way [...]

An attractive blonde, wine glass in hand, sidled up to my husband. I could tell she was smart. She subtly moved her gaze from one end of the room to [...]

I recently came up with an idea: that it would be revelatory to ask as many women who were willing to “nominate” our next world leaders to choose who, among [...]

(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. [...]

The questions of children never fail to reach to the center of things. I realized this anew sitting at my table answering the letters of a friend’s eighth-grade science class. [...]