From Sex and the City to Lean In, a generation of American women was handed a very specific roadmap for happiness — ambition first, everything else negotiable. Decades later, the data is in, the cats are fed, and it's time for an honest accounting of what those messages actually delivered.
Mar 13, 2026
The empowerment playbook was glossy, motivational, and suspiciously short. Now that the women who followed it are clearing sixty, a few inconvenient chapters are finally getting written. Pull up a chair — and maybe count your cats while you're at it.
Mar 12, 2026
For decades, pop culture handed us a flashing neon sign in the shape of a housecoat-wearing woman surrounded by tabbies, and we burned it down and called it progress. Pastor Roy dusts off the ashes and asks the uncomfortable question: what if the cliché was trying to tell us something?
Mar 12, 2026
For decades, women were promised that a corner office and a passport full of stamps would be more than enough. Now, at 55, 60, and beyond, a growing chorus of voices is quietly — and sometimes not so quietly — admitting the brochure left out a few important details. Pastor Roy sits down with the data, the stories, and yes, the cats.
Mar 12, 2026
Pop culture has mastered the art of the empowered career woman montage — the corner office, the passport stamps, the perfectly lit solo dinner with a glass of Malbec. But funny thing: the cameras always seem to malfunction right around the time she's turning 65 and the cats start outnumbering the holiday card recipients. Carol Anne Pruitt investigates Hollywood's very convenient blind spot.
Mar 12, 2026
The 'Girl Boss' era handed an entire generation of women a gleaming career trophy and forgot to mention the fine print. Now that the dust has settled and the corner offices are occupied, a quietly devastating loneliness epidemic is making itself very comfortable — right alongside the cats.
Mar 12, 2026
Decades of feminist messaging promised that a corner office and a passport full of stamps would be enough. Now the research is rolling in, the women are turning 60, and the cats are — well, the cats are indifferent, as cats tend to be. Pastor Roy takes a compassionate but clear-eyed look at the epidemic nobody wanted to name.
Mar 11, 2026
For decades, women were handed a shiny brochure promising that a corner office and a passport full of stamps would be more than enough. Now, a growing number of those same women are sitting in beautifully decorated homes, surrounded by career trophies and zero grandchildren, wondering why the brochure left out the part about eating dinner alone. Barbara Jean Whitfield takes an honest — and yes, slightly cat-forward — look at the loneliness epidemic quietly swallowing a generation of high-achieving women.
Mar 11, 2026