Ryan Burdick is an eighth-grade teacher in the Baldwinsville school district. Middle schoolers have always been weird. But they’re getting weirder, and not in good ways. I’ve taught eighth grade for ...

A successful memoirist who writes books about Albert Camus and the “absurdities of middle age”, Tessa has a crush on a new friend, a philosophy professor named Charlie. Both are married, but there is ...

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Dear Eric: My wife and daughter have not gotten along well since my daughter hit middle school (she’s now about to turn 18). Part of the problem is that they are very much alike. Both of them have OCD ...

I've gone through many different hair transformations over the years, but no matter what, one thing has always remained true: I'm a middle-part stan. When the Gen Z and millenial debate about middle ...

There are two types of people in this world: those who think cruises are fun, and those who think they are floating shopping malls teaming with raucous children, drunk adults and norovirus. I have ...