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PHILADELPHIA — Planned Parenthood clinics in the Philadelphia area expect to lose $3.1 million in Medicaid revenue this year due to funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s signature spending plan.

The deficit puts thousands of low-income people who rely on Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania’s clinics at risk of losing access...Read more

'REMINDERS OF HIM'

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, strong language, drug content, some violent content, and brief partial nudity.

What it’s about: A young woman, fresh out of prison, tries to start a new life with the hopes of meeting her young daughter.

The kid attractor factor: This is an adult romantic melodrama, not much appeal for kids...Read more

For many months, I puzzled over why I couldn’t cry over my dad’s dementia. I even googled “why can’t I cry” to diagnose my condition, my inability to grieve the disappearance of his logic and memory.

My mom says when a loved one dies of a heart attack or in a car crash, the trauma is compacted. But our family’s grief was spread over...Read more

Q. My ex often says, "You never cared about me, and now you don't care about our daughter." We're divorced, but this comes up repeatedly. When she says it, I find myself defending how much I care — about her, about our child — and the truth is, I don't care about my ex anymore. That sounds harsh, but I have very clear boundaries. I do care ...Read more

I can catch a plane, a ball, a cold and the flu, but the one thing I can’t catch is home improvement skills.

I recently painted a small bathroom cabinet. The project took three days, not including 11 trips to the big box hardware store.

Meanwhile, on six different cable channels, people with home improvement skills ripped out small half-...Read more

What happens when your life falls apart? Not just once, but over and over again? When you’re constantly reminded of your mistakes? When there is no true way to atone for these mistakes?

In her first novel in over a decade, M.L. Stedman seeks to answer these questions in the epic family saga, "A Far-Flung Life."

The book centers on the ...Read more

"The Girl from Melodia" by Jonathan Toussaint is a literary tragedy set in the early 1990s France and England against the backdrop of the folk music scene, taking the reader from the gritty realism of the Tulle Folk Festival to a claustrophobic houseboat on the River Lea. Unreliable narrator Martyn Lockhart, son of the infamous folk singer John ...Read more

"The Future Saints" by Ashley Winstead is an ambitious novel, expansive in its concerns: sisterhood and family, the highs and lows of the music industry and the long-term consequences of mental illness and addiction. The novel is at its strongest in its close attention to daily interactions—among the band members themselves and with the record...Read more

'HOPPERS'

Rated PG for action/peril, some scary images and mild language.

What it’s about: An animated action-comedy about an eco-activist who goes undercover as a beaver to save her favorite nature spot.

The kid attractor factor: The animated style, cute characters and humor will be a draw for kids and families.

Good lessons/bad lessons: ...Read more

It happened at our oldest daughter’s place. I rang the bell, peeked in the side window and saw an ill-defined, furry mass lumbering toward the door.

My mind flashed back to my days in the Pacific Northwest when Bigfoot sightings were common. Was it a Bigfoot sighting? Here and now, in a sprawling suburb?

As the creature drew closer, I could ...Read more

These six novels delve into the complexities of the human heart, exploring love, loss and the transformative power of redemption.

From haunting journeys of trauma and healing to moral dilemmas, unforgettable friendships and the weight of memory, each story invites readers into richly drawn worlds where courage, faith and the struggle to ...Read more

This is the first May Cobb book I’ve read, but it sure won’t be the last – I’m hooked!

Cobb has received tremendous acclaim for her deliciously twisty best-selling domestic thrillers in the past such as "The Hunting Wives" which also went on to be a hit TV series on Netflix.

And she really hits it out of the park once again with her ...Read more