“Crowded out of the city by noise and stress, I embraced the wild solitude of a Hebridean island – and found a connection to nature.”
Carolyn Wells
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We Bet You Miss Weddings. America’s Greatest Wedding Band Does Too.
“The carefree manner in which the guests of the wedding interacted with one another that night stamps this story in a specific time a seeming eternity ago, before social distancing and quarantine and a great big pause on America’s $60-billion-plus-a-year wedding industrial complex.”
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Until I Have Your Money
How multiple Canadian women entered a relationship with a man who was scamming them for money.
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He Stole Their Hearts, Then Their Money. Meet The Women Trying To Catch One Of Canada’s Most Prolific Romance Scammers
“So suddenly you’re not just meeting some guy—you’re meeting a fellow right-of-centre Christian and outdoor enthusiast who also loves dogs or basket weaving or your favourite country song.”
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What The Mysterious Boredom Divide Teaches Us
Some people are a lot more susceptible to boredom. Why?
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‘Knowing It Could Kill You Isn’t a Deterrent’: The Deadly Trade in Diet Pills
“She told her friend she wanted to get into a residential eating disorders clinic. She also ordered more DNP.”
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When Boomers Must Zoom
“A friend who teaches at another university tells me that a new Yiddish word has been invented: oysgezoomt, ‘over-exposed to Zoom,’ as in ‘Ich bin azoy oysgezoomt!’ (‘I’m so done with Zoom!’)”
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On Matthew’s Mind
An operation to remove a brain cyst changed Matthew’s identity.
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Screen Share: A College Teacher’s Zoom Journal
For 15 years, Anne Fadiman taught her students in intimate classrooms. Covid-19 has meant reinventing the way she teaches.
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Letters of Love: ‘Our Father Wrote Every Day As He Waited To Be Sent To Auschwitz’
“His love for his sons leaps out from all his letters, but in one of the last he had a surprise for them.”