Woman's Day Winter 2025

Here’s a creative way to show someone you care on Valentine’s Day: Bake a batch of our cute cookies and arrange them in a shallow heart-shaped box (we found this one online for a few bucks!). Wrap with cellophane or a cheery cloth, then tie closed with ribbon. Recipe, page 77 how to reach us SUBSCRIPTIONS online womansday.com/service mail Woman’s Day PO Box 37870 Boone, IA 50037-0870 telephone 800-234-2960 EDITORIAL email womansday@hearst.com mail Reader Mail Woman’s Day 300 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 When requesting a reply, include telephone number and address. REPRINTS AND EPRINTS Contact Brian Kolb, Wright’s Reprints, 877-652-5295 or bkolb@wrightsreprints.com Inspiration to go Our portable box of Bible verse cards will help you find words of hope and strength when you need them most. $16,…

A fitness instructor I really like wears a T-shirt that says No bad days. It’s the mantra he’s decided he wants to live by. He knows bad stuff happens, but he also knows that how we react to the tough stuff is ultimately what makes a day good or bad. To help him keep his mantra top of mind and share it with others, he decided to make T-shirts featuring it, then artwork, then a beaded bracelet (see page 12 for the inspiring story of an entrepreneurwho launched a booming business by sharing power words!). Mantras are an important and effective tool for reinforcing a feeling, thought, or behavior. But for them to be effective, you have to play them on repeat in your mind, which isn’t always easy. Like…

No human being has ever walked into a bagel shop on a Sunday morning and ordered the right number of bagels. It’s impossible. The second I walk up to the counter and say, “Give me two everything bagels and two sesame,” a miniature bagel devil materializes on my shoulder. “C’mon, Roker! Four lousy bagels? What if someone wants seconds? A neighbor could stop over. You wanna look stingy? What’s wrong with you? Go with the dozen!” The result? Extra bagels. The solution: This mouthwatering strata, which is basically bagels, lox, and cream cheese in casserole form. family affair Al teamed up with his daughter, Courtney Roker Laga, to share their favorites.…

GOLD STANDARD Uncork bottles with flair using this flashy tool from a trusted brand. Its simple, durable design will help you get the party started. COOL CUBES Make the classiest cocktails with clear ice. This tray removes imperfections and bubbles for a crystal-like result. CRUSH IT! Smash ice for juleps and more expertly with this mallet and its canvas bag, which absorbs excess water.…

After Jessica Eastman Stewart’s brother, Nick Eastman, passed away in 2015, she began an annual tradition to honor his memory called #NickWasKind. Each year on his birthday, July 3, her family does good deeds—buying coffee for folks behind them in line, leaving gas money or surprise gifts on car windshields, donating blood, baking treats for firefighters, etc. “It started with those of us who knew Nick,” Jessica explains, “but has grown to include people who never met him, some of whom discovered #NickWasKind after experiencing an act of kindness themselves.” We hope Jessica’s story will inspire you to action, especially on National Random Acts of Kindness Day.…

CONNIE: A MEMOIR by Connie Chung My husband, Maury Povich, always said, “You have a story to tell—you are Jackie Robinson.” I never believed him. Then I came across a letter from my father in which he assigned me a mission: to chisel the family name, Chung, in history as a son would—a coveted son my Chinese parents never had. Fast-forward to 2019, when a young journalist shocked me. She said untold numbers of Asian parents had named their baby daughters “Connie” after me. A living legacy. That was it. Maury was right. I had to write my memoir. The glowing reviews, critical acclaim, and “bests” I have received have altered my ego—now my husband cannot live with me anymore. Ha-ha. PERSONAL HISTORY by Katharine Graham How could I write…