A year ago today was a Wednesday, which had become something of a special day for Drew and me. With both kids finally in school full time (Jackson was in third grade and Joanie had joined him at his school six months earlier as a full-time pre-k student), I had my days free – well… Read more
Last week I watched with eager anticipation the first episode of “The Real World: Homecoming,” a series reuniting the original cast members of “The Real World,” the docu-series that pioneered what we now call reality TV. It was broadcast in 1992, the year I turned 16, and it famously brought together seven strangers picked to… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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