Category: Highlight

“Building a relationship is important, because it makes the pictures secondary.”

“The way we die is changing. So, too, is the way we think about dying — and about the opportunity, even the right, to die at a time and place of our choosing.”

“She can be shy and insecure. And yet she didn’t hesitate to stare down the cameras on American television to call out one of the most powerful men in the world.”

In the midst of a pandemic, nature reminds Susan Krawitz that miracles are possible.

‘“You shouldn’t stay here,” he says, but he gets more frightened as night comes, dreading the long hours of fever and soaking sweats and shivering and terrible aches.’

“Whether this (continuous deflection) is intentional or not, it’s a good way of avoiding giving too much away.”

“Sing Sing was going into quarantine. Our movement was limited. No gym. Hospital and commissary runs limited to groups of ten. Staggered seating in the mess hall.”

For wealthy Americans, a dystopian future includes underground golfing in South Dakota.

Our stories matter. And they are our legacies for future generations. (Plus: some free writing resources.)

“Dreams, like Scheherazade’s stories, keep us alive, keep our ships from crashing too soon, keep our candles in those ocean vessel’s rooms aglow.”

‘“Notre Dame will come out of this experience enriched,” she says. “And so will we.”’

“My dad every now and then will toe that line and be like, You could try women!” says Bowen, laughing. “And I’m like…Don’t. It’s almost an endearing kind of homophobia, if such a thing exists.”

“We didn’t know it yet, but we were living in a kind of laboratory of the country’s future. We were the first.”

“Weiss…a subtle, under-the-radar bureaucrat who fought his country’s adversaries with red tape and a headful of contrarian ideas. I understood him as a man whose entire life was secrets. “

If you are the family breadwinner, how do you calculate the value of time with your children?

“Live your life now in a positive way. Help people if you can. Don’t hurt people. That works perfectly for me, man.”

“The thinking is that fleets of tireless, automated, uncrewed vehicles could one day criss-cross our waters, making maps where humans can’t or won’t.”

Even as California’s Inland Empire loses its citrus industry to urbanization, urbanites can still keep social ties by planting fruit trees in their yards.

Moe Tkacik reveals the web of shadiness lurking behind WeWork’s facade.

“He knew there were a lot of people just like him, irregularly employed, regulars in pubs, the owners of passports and phones and all the right charger leads, only with nowhere stable to live.”

“Before he died a few years later, my father told me there were almost no tocaoras — female flamenco guitarists — in the world. If I kept practicing, he said, I could be one of the first.”

What’s in the hold, captain? Oh nothing, just tonnes upon tonnes of illegal Chilean bass — nothing to see here!

Can Fitbit data help to convict the alleged perpetrator of a brutal murder?

Rita Strand, age 58, posed as a health inspector and got unrestricted access to South Dakota prison.

The claws of diet culture dig in early, and they dig in deep.

“Having children has simultaneously fried my brain and made it sharper and more focused.”

Paraic O’Donnell chronicles the progression of his MS with clarity, beauty, wit, and no small amount of sadness. Picking the most striking paragraph in this essay full of them is a fool’s errand.

“Even with a preponderance of evidence and testimonies, every man on trial got away with murder. This fact was not front-page news but tucked beneath odd stories called ‘Flashes of Life.'”

Just read it. And go wash your hands.

When an interior-design startup collapses, no filter can hide the ugly truth.