Why I’m Giving Myself Permission to Keep Writing at This Time By Sari Botton Highlight Our stories matter. And they are our legacies for future generations. (Plus: some free writing resources.)
‘Grief is the Wake of Love’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “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.”
The Stories of Notre Dame, as Told by Timber and Limestone By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘“Notre Dame will come out of this experience enriched,” she says. “And so will we.”’
Bowen Yang is Simply Awesome By Krista Stevens Highlight “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.”
An Unenviable Week of Firsts in Seattle Under COVID-19 By Krista Stevens Highlight “We didn’t know it yet, but we were living in a kind of laboratory of the country’s future. We were the first.”
Did the United States Booby-Trap a Vital Soviet Gas Pipeline? By Krista Stevens Highlight “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. “
When Time Costs Too Much By Carolyn Wells Highlight If you are the family breadwinner, how do you calculate the value of time with your children?
Life Advice from Jazz Genius Sonny Rollins By Krista Stevens Highlight “Live your life now in a positive way. Help people if you can. Don’t hurt people. That works perfectly for me, man.”
Mowing the Lawn to Map the Ocean Floor, One Long, Slow Pass at a Time By Krista Stevens Highlight “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.”
Some Inland California History Begins with an Orange By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight 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.
Behind One of the Sketchiest Men, a Sketchy Woman By Sari Botton Highlight Moe Tkacik reveals the web of shadiness lurking behind WeWork’s facade.
The Man Who Lived in a Hole in Hampstead Heath By Krista Stevens Highlight “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.”
“Follow Along,” or How to Learn Flamenco Guitar with a Tocaora By Krista Stevens Highlight “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.”
In Hot Pursuit of STS-50, High Seas Scofflaw By Krista Stevens Highlight What’s in the hold, captain? Oh nothing, just tonnes upon tonnes of illegal Chilean bass — nothing to see here!
Detective Fitbit By Carolyn Wells Highlight Can Fitbit data help to convict the alleged perpetrator of a brutal murder?
How a Mom Penetrated the Pen to Hack the Warden’s Computer By Krista Stevens Highlight Rita Strand, age 58, posed as a health inspector and got unrestricted access to South Dakota prison.
The Hate Is Coming From Inside the House By Michelle Weber Highlight The claws of diet culture dig in early, and they dig in deep.
Margery Kempe: Patron Saint of Writing Moms By Krista Stevens Highlight “Having children has simultaneously fried my brain and made it sharper and more focused.”
How Do You Live In a Body That Doesn’t Feel Like Yours? If You Have No Choice, You Just Do. By Michelle Weber Highlight 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.
How a Hurricane’s Trailing Winds Retold Willie Earle’s 1947 Mass Lynching By Krista Stevens Highlight “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.'”
This Story About Coronavirus Is Both Deeply Alarming and Deeply Calming By Michelle Weber Highlight Just read it. And go wash your hands.
The Decline and Not-Quite-Instagrammable Fall of a Design Startup By Ben Huberman Highlight When an interior-design startup collapses, no filter can hide the ugly truth.
Sharing Our Stories Was Supposed to Dispel Our Shame By Sari Botton Highlight Emily Gould reconsiders the likelihood of women’s first-person writing bringing about change.
Apocalypse Now? Now? How About Now? By Krista Stevens Highlight “And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”
‘What’s this guy doing loose in Malheur County?’ By Michelle Weber Highlight He faked an insanity defense, got out, and immediately committed another crime, and this time people are dead. He’s going to plead insanity again.
Can Mickey Mouse Coexist with Bears, Panthers, and Alligators? By Krista Stevens Highlight “The treasures of wild Florida — landscapes, waterways, flora, and fauna — will soon disappear without drastic efforts to save them.”
Don’t Pretend Like You Don’t Love Wikipedia By Michelle Weber Highlight Without it, you’d have to actually, y’know, be productive.
The Misogyny Is the Point By Michelle Weber Highlight I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free… to be reduced to a uterus and some boobs! Good times.
Making Periods Green To Topple Tampax By Carolyn Wells Highlight Will a pain-relieving, CBD-infused, biodegradable cotton tampon be enough to beat Tampax?
Closing the Loop on Diabetes By Carolyn Wells Highlight Open source code could be the key to transforming the life of diabetics.
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