Can you find the missing headphones in this picture? Hint: Yellow AirPod case.I didn’t say no much as a kid.Honestly, most of us weren’t really encouraged to.Back then the gold standard for children — especially girls — was agreeable. Helpful. Easygoing. Respectful.Say yes.Be polite.Do what you’re told.Don’t talk back.Don’t be selfish.And I became exceptionally good

Molly Booker May 2026Last night at PPG Paints Arena, I wasn’t sure if I belonged there.Bruce Springsteen is a privileged white man. This is his crowd, right?Lots of older white guys in denim. Beer. Arena rock mythology. America.As a queer lesbian raising a mixed-race, nonbinary child in this political moment, I’ve grown used to quietly

Meet Shelly.We picked her up on Friday—a 2025 Coachmen Leprechaun, twenty-eight feet of “are we really doing this?” energy—and within an hour, I was driving her solo down winding Pennsylvania roads like a woman who absolutely has her life together. Kelly followed behind me in Penny, the Subaru, dogs in tow, probably watching me like,

What Does Success Even Mean?Robert Holden once asked me a question that stopped me cold:How do you define success?Molly and Kelly in Costa RicaI was completely caught off guard.Had I ever actually slowed down long enough to answer that for myself? It felt like one of those questions that should be easy—like Who are you?—and