Dear Sugars

“It’s only when my pants are nearly impossible to button that I force myself to lose weight,” writes the letter-writer who calls herself Body Negative. “And then the pattern starts all over again.” Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant, the co-owners of Be Nourished, join the Sugars on today’s episode to offer Body Negative and women like her some hope.

Remembering the grocery list, coordinating with the babysitter, making food for the potluck, scheduling a get-together with the in-laws: These are some of the invisible tasks that (most) women exclusively do in their romantic relationships. Women from across the country wrote in to the Dear Sugars inbox echoing identical inequalities in their relationships with their husbands and boyfriends.

Whether you’re 5, 15, or 50 years old, it can be difficult to usher a stepparent in and out of the family unit. In today’s episode, the Sugars answer letters from stepchildren who have fraught relationships with their stepparents. This episode was originally released on April 28th, 2018.

In this first episode of "You Could Make This Beautiful," actor Henry Winkler tells hosts Maggie Smith and Faith Salie about the poetry he's found in everything from fly fishing, to music, to acting. Poet Saeed Jones talks about the chemical reaction that poems set off in our brains and bodies, and he reads us one of his original poems.

In this second episode of "You Could Make This Beautiful," hosts Maggie Smith and Faith Salie talk to Peter Sagal, host of the NPR news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" about a poem that's haunted him for decades. They also talk to poet and Harvard professor Stephanie Burt about finding poetry in science fiction, Taylor Swift, and politics.