Mercury Is in Retrograde — But Is That Really Why You Feel Anxious?
Mercury is in retrograde again. Your phone glitched. Your ex texted. A conversation with your partner went sideways for no apparent reason. You feel foggy, anxious, and slightly off — like the world tilted two degrees and nobody else seems to notice. And somewhere in the back of your mind you are either blaming a planet or rolling your eyes at the people who do. Either way you are reading
It Is Mental Health Awareness Month — Here Is What Montana Needs to Know
Every May the country pauses to talk about mental health. Social media fills with green ribbons and awareness campaigns. Companies post about self-care. Celebrities share their stories. And then June arrives and the conversation mostly stops. But in Montana mental health is not a once-a-year conversation. It is an every-day crisis that does not end when the awareness month does. Montana has the second highest suicide rate in the country.
My Adult Children Won’t Speak to Each Other — What Can I Do?
You raised them in the same house. They shared bedrooms and birthday parties and holidays around the same table. They fought as kids — all siblings do — but you always assumed they would grow up and figure it out. That one day they would be friends. That your family would stay whole. And now your adult children will not speak to each other. Maybe it started with a disagreement
Am I Grieving or Am I Depressed — How to Tell the Difference
Someone you loved is gone. Maybe they died. Maybe the marriage ended. Maybe the friendship dissolved. Maybe you lost a pregnancy, a career, a home, or a version of yourself that you will never get back. And now you feel terrible — a deep, heavy, pervasive terrible that has settled into your bones and will not leave. You cry. You cannot sleep. You have no energy. Nothing feels interesting or
Will AI Take My Job? How to Cope With the Anxiety of an Uncertain Future
Bill Gates — the man who co-founded Microsoft and helped launch the personal computer revolution — recently declared AI the most disruptive invention in human history. He wrote that there is no upper limit on how intelligent AI will get and that he believes advances will not plateau before exceeding human levels. Senator Bernie Sanders stood on Capitol Hill in April 2026 and warned that we are looking at the
Why Does Everything Feel So Terrifying Right Now — Existential Dread, Panic, and How to Cope
You are a tiny speck of consciousness on a rock hurtling through infinite space at 67,000 miles per hour, orbiting a ball of nuclear fire, in a galaxy that contains an estimated 200 billion stars, in a universe that may contain two trillion galaxies. Beneath your feet in Montana sits one of the largest supervolcanoes on the planet. Above your head, roughly 25,000 near-Earth asteroids have been catalogued — and