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Hi, I’m Carie. I write daily posts about navigating these times.

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Carie Behounek 3/19/26 Carie Behounek 3/19/26

“Try hard”

I got my hair cut today and walked out of the salon into golden hour so here’s my “try hard” selfie of my aging over 45 self.

Carie Behounek 3/12/26 Carie Behounek 3/12/26

A rant on women’s health

This clipping found amongst my grandma’s archives shows that I’ve been a health writer since in 1990s. This hard hitting piece about high school health classes was published around 1993 — which is also the year women started being included with some regularity in clinical trials.