Like I need another magazine subscription. But this editorial, dated 4/1, made me chuckle.
Okay, We Give Up
There’s no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don’t mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation [...]
This week my mother said that I’m occasionally “so smooth as to be not really genuine” and “sometimes it comes across as phony.” My therapist said that I’m a bit “holier than thou” about the things in my life that I’m proud of.
Neither of these things makes me feel particularly good.
I woke up yesterday morning with a sound in my ears, but I couldn’t immediately identify what it was.
My family visited Kate and I this weekend: my brother, my mother, my stepfather, and my grandmother. My grandmother’s been treading a little more lightly on the planet recently — physically she’s far better than she [...]
… performing an activity with one’s significant other and having a cat show up in an unexpected place at an unexpected moment.
Kate and I have been wrestling (practically greco-roman wrestling, all covered in olive oil and grimacing) over what we want our wedding certificate (something analogous to a ketubah, only for Quakers) to look like. Certain basics we knew and agreed on; but as to what the thing would look like… the aesthetic differences have [...]