People celebrate when a baby is born, and yet most of society shames and stigmatizes the very thing that enables human beings to come into existence: a woman's menstrual cycle. Why are young girls ...

Most of us perceive time as an arrow, a one-way trip into the future. And while that’s true, nature has a way of interpolating circular patterns onto that linear model — day follows night, the seasons ...

Life cycles consist of births, deaths, and all the milestones in between, but I also wonder, too, about the often small, pivotal moments—the highlights—of these cycles. A mark of independence on my ...