Peckerwood Manor

Dolly makes a great CoverGirl because this photo is so her, and she makes an excellent case for her selfless reasons to remain Childless by Choice. One of the most fundamental decisions some of us make as adults is to decide if we want to become parents of children beyond our furry or befeathered ones. The answer changes the trajectory of our lives, informs us about what our older age might look like, and forces women to come to terms with life choices and our limited biological timeframe to produce babies. We have about 20-25 years of fertility in adulthood, and we have decisions to make that are more nuanced with each advancing year. What we decide at 19 certainly differs from what we choose at 40. When the door slams, our bodies make it a moot point; it has made that decision for us. For better or worse, we must live with our choices and forge lives living with the results. Men aren't faced with this reality; just look at Robert De Niro or Al Pacino, choosing to become parents i...

Jennifer Aniston debuted a new look, and her fans and The Morning Show fans are calling her out and calling her almost unrecognizable. I read the headline and figured, what else is new? A vain, desperate, aging actor has plastic surgery to stay in the game. The grass is green, the sky is blue, and the earth turns on its axis. Facts. It isn't new or remarkable, I thought. Her face is her job; Aniston is no bra-burning trailblazer by any account, and so what, anyway. I was prepared to move on to searching for gossip and thought nothing of it.  Until I actually saw it, and there is no way around this. Crikey woman! I struggled to find a way to make it make sense. Surely, she was more intelligent than this, but she looked like an entirely different person, like a sister or cousin, just not Jennifer. The difference is striking and, to me, not a great job. Maybe it needs to settle, but it is weird because her face is also as frozen as Nicole Kidman's was circa 2005 when Kidman was sk...