The Great Exhaustion - Womentorship - Medium
What If Beneath The Great Resignation is a Deeper Existential Truth We Are All Ignoring? After nearly two years in and out of quarantine, my husband became the first of us to get Covid. Christmas plans thrown out the window. Fantastical dreams of finishing four books during the break turned into a few chapters here and there. As we all approach nearly 700 days of “unprecedented” pandemic-related events, we have been left with a rupture so great between friends and families that it may take an...
The Great Exhaustion - Womentorship - Medium
What If Beneath The Great Resignation is a Deeper Existential Truth We Are All Ignoring? After nearly two years in and out of quarantine, my husband became the first of us to get Covid. Christmas plans thrown out the window. Fantastical dreams of finishing four books during the break turned into a few chapters here and there. As we all approach nearly 700 days of “unprecedented” pandemic-related events, we have been left with a rupture so great between friends and families that it may take an...
Betty White Wasn’t Too Nice. She Was Just Nice Enough.
It felt sadly symbolic that a year largely defined by its unpleasant moments ended with the death of Betty White, the Nicest Woman In America.When she died Friday at the age of 99 and 347/365ths, Betty White remained what we telescope our mother or grandmother or favorite aunt to have been — a perpetually nice person, always upbeat, never a harsh word about anybody or anything. Without suggesting any negative inside information about Ms. White, that probably underestimates her. It makes her s...
Betty White Wasn’t Too Nice. She Was Just Nice Enough.
It felt sadly symbolic that a year largely defined by its unpleasant moments ended with the death of Betty White, the Nicest Woman In America.When she died Friday at the age of 99 and 347/365ths, Betty White remained what we telescope our mother or grandmother or favorite aunt to have been — a perpetually nice person, always upbeat, never a harsh word about anybody or anything. Without suggesting any negative inside information about Ms. White, that probably underestimates her. It makes her s...
In Praise of New Year’s Resolutions - Forge
Why they work https://ericweiner.medium.com/?source=post_page-----125086b70ca----------------------------------- Eric Weiner https://forge.medium.com/in-praise-of-new-years-resolutions-125086b70ca?source=post_page-----125086b70ca----------------------------------- Dec 29, 2021·4 min readPhoto by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash In recent years, a grim narrative about New Year’s resolutions has gelled: they don’t work. Not only are they doomed to fail, we’re told, but they can actually prove counter...
In Praise of New Year’s Resolutions - Forge
Why they work https://ericweiner.medium.com/?source=post_page-----125086b70ca----------------------------------- Eric Weiner https://forge.medium.com/in-praise-of-new-years-resolutions-125086b70ca?source=post_page-----125086b70ca----------------------------------- Dec 29, 2021·4 min readPhoto by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash In recent years, a grim narrative about New Year’s resolutions has gelled: they don’t work. Not only are they doomed to fail, we’re told, but they can actually prove counter...
Invisible: The Fault Lines of Motherhood - Human Parts
This Is Us https://medium.com/@catherinevictoriakapphahn?source=post_page-----3a5cdfdf6535----------------------------------- Catherine Kapphahn https://medium.com/invisible-the-fault-lines-of-motherhood-3a5cdfdf6535?source=post_page-----3a5cdfdf6535----------------------------------- Dec 22, 2021·8 min readWe take a few steps from our beds to remote teaching and remote learning, to four desks in three rooms. In our Queens, New York City apartment, we endure lock down, our entry into the pand...
Invisible: The Fault Lines of Motherhood - Human Parts
This Is Us https://medium.com/@catherinevictoriakapphahn?source=post_page-----3a5cdfdf6535----------------------------------- Catherine Kapphahn https://medium.com/invisible-the-fault-lines-of-motherhood-3a5cdfdf6535?source=post_page-----3a5cdfdf6535----------------------------------- Dec 22, 2021·8 min readWe take a few steps from our beds to remote teaching and remote learning, to four desks in three rooms. In our Queens, New York City apartment, we endure lock down, our entry into the pand...
The Very First Sermon Christ Gave Taught Us About The Jubilee
Photo by Raghavendra V. Konkathi on UnsplashApparently, debt cancellation isn’t the most popular topic in Christianity. https://scottcdunn.medium.com/?source=post_page-----c9c4f95b8ab3----------------------------------- ScottCDunn https://scottcdunn.medium.com/the-very-first-sermon-christ-gave-taught-us-about-the-jubilee-c9c4f95b8ab3?source=post_page-----c9c4f95b8ab3----------------------------------- Dec 25, 2021·5 min read It’s early Christmas morning as I write this. I just could not sleep...
The Very First Sermon Christ Gave Taught Us About The Jubilee
Photo by Raghavendra V. Konkathi on UnsplashApparently, debt cancellation isn’t the most popular topic in Christianity. https://scottcdunn.medium.com/?source=post_page-----c9c4f95b8ab3----------------------------------- ScottCDunn https://scottcdunn.medium.com/the-very-first-sermon-christ-gave-taught-us-about-the-jubilee-c9c4f95b8ab3?source=post_page-----c9c4f95b8ab3----------------------------------- Dec 25, 2021·5 min read It’s early Christmas morning as I write this. I just could not sleep...