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Chong Ming: Base44 built me a writing companion app with a cute egg. The layout felt bland, but it was a full-fledged, functional app created without using up all my credits.Lovable’s build was similar and didn’t use all credits.Both platforms could generate the app; the main variation was in aesthetics.…
I’d done everything I could think of to not be diagnosed with sleep apnea. Yet here I was at 10:30 p.m., slamming shut the reservoir on my godforsaken CPAP machine, stomping around my bedroom like a toddler.After listening to me from downstairs, my husband entered our bedroom to try to…
In my 30s, I was the only one of my three siblings who wasn’t married or starting a family. At holidays and birthdays, I smiled through it and lead into becoming the cool aunt to my nieces and nephew. On Mother’s Day, however, I began bracing myself.Each year, my mom…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jen Affleck, who stars on Hulu’s “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives”. It has been edited for length and clarity.Growing up, I thought success was selfish. Being raised in Mormon culture, I learned that the women were supposed to be at…
On Monday, the Justice Department waved a white flag, telling a court it would no longer try to justify President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms.On Tuesday, the DOJ decided it was ready for battle again.The Justice Department filed a notice with the US Court of Appeals for the…
The author (in yellow) with her new set of friends at a bar in Connecticut.Courtesy of Dean SmithTwo of my best friends recently told me they were moving hundreds of miles out of state.I felt depressed because I thought it would be hard to make new friendships as a Gen…
I turned 57 this year. I always thought that by this point in my life, I would be taking bucket-list trips, tending a garden, and writing the novel I’ve always known was in me. Instead, my days are filled with wiping noses and every surface imaginable while keeping tabs on…
Love made me leave behind a place right near my parents in Houston to join my partner in a town without a single restaurant.I’d first met my partner a decade earlier, but we’d reconnected more recently — while long-distance — over a shared love of stories, coffee, and baseball.From the…
