Illustration by Chelsea Charles for The Globe and Mail Trending on Twitter yesterday was this article about how marital sex is yet another victim of Covid, with married couples reporting – to couples counselors, researchers, each other – a lack of intimacy since the pandemic began. Calls are up to couples’ therapists, with many spouses…
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This was a dumpster fire of a year and while I’m under no illusion that things will magically get better the minute the clock strikes midnight on Thursday, I do think we’ll collectively be in a much better place this time next year, and for that bit of hope I am grateful. And I also…
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Marc Rosenthal for the NYTimes. Yesterday, I posted in my Instagram stories that I’d read only seven books to completion in 2020 and they were all read before April. Since then, I’ve only read parts of books – half a book here, a few chapters there. Even books I know are good, I find too…
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This week has felt like another turning point in the nightmare those of us in the United States are currently living through, and I wanted to check with everyone and see how you’re all doing. Amid the continued racial injustice (specifically, the pathetic ruling in the killing of Breonna Taylor), the continued devastation as a…
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Photographed by Franey Miller for Refinery29 A reader sent me a link to this essay,“The Dream Job Is Dead. Did It Ever Really Exist?,” and I thought it was worth getting a post of its own. The pandemic and resulting effect it has had on our economy and livelihoods has brought into sharp focus an…
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