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The Internet Is Killing Happiness. Can We Stop It?

So, I’ll admit it: I was looking at my phone the moment my two-year-old fell off a stump at our little Fairmount playground and bashed […]

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Philly Babies: A Love Story in Photographs

Baby Aria: The Perfect-Timing Labor Delivered at Virtua Voorhees As a teacher in Princeton, Amanda Hartstein has an hour-long commute. Her first child — Paul, […]

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Making Philadelphia Better: How to Get Involved in the Age of Trump

American democracy is on life support. Half the country didn’t show up to vote in 2016. Around 30 percent of millennials say it’s “essential” to […]

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That Time (Last Week) a White Man Joked That I Must Be the Coat-Checker

Holiday parties: for me, either the best of times or the most uncomfortable of times. As the editor of G Philly, Philadelphia magazine’s LGBTQ channel, […]

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The Great Philadelphia Families

Think of what Mark Twain said: “In Boston, they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, […]

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The Other Part of Womanhood No One Told Me About

When I was in grade school, one of our hippie teachers told us the story of making soup out of his new baby’s placenta — […]

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What the Philly Grocery Store Boom Is Really About

In early 2008, not long after I came out of a not-excellent relationship, landed a new job and moved to Philadelphia, I found my soul […]

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Q&A: Pat Toomey

Your dad was a union worker. Your mom was a secretary. Having grown up in the white working class, why do you think that community […]

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The Philadelphian’s Guide to the Outdoors: 8 Great Fall Escapes

At some point or another, even the most die-hard urbanite craves peace, quiet, tranquility and, well, trees. But getting back to nature doesn’t have to […]

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Fall Weekend Getaway: The Lodge at Glendorn in Bradford, PA

A curious thing happened this summer. Travel + Leisure put out its annual list of the top resort hotels in the country, and Glendorn, a […]

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Fall Weekend Getaway: Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, West Virginia

How did we get here? This is what I’m thinking as I sit in my tandem kayak, my husband behind me, in a cove off […]

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Fall Weekend Getaway: Glamping at Posh Primitive Campground in the Adirondacks

When I was growing up, my family wasn’t really the camping type. We lived in the woods in South Jersey, and its pestilent mosquito swarms, […]

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Fall Weekend Getaway: The Iris Inn in Shenandoah Valley, VA

I was a little worried that the Iris Inn was going to be one of those typical bed-and-breakfasts, heavy with toile and needlepoint kitsch. After […]

Fall Weekend Getaways: Inside a yurt at Savage River Lodge
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Fall Weekend Getaway: Savage River Lodge in Frostburg, Maryland

This sounds ridiculous, but I’m serious: The 4.5-hour drive from Philadelphia to Savage River Lodge — particularly that last stretch on I-68 — is just the […]

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Fall Weekend Getaway: Glamping at Firelight Camps in Ithaca, New York

I approached the water with a bit of trepidation. I don’t know why I was nervous. I love swimming. I’m relatively good at it. But […]