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In John Tierney’s classic humor article “Picky, Picky, Picky,” he tries nobly to get us to laugh at the impossible situation our culture has put us in. He recounts many of the reasons his single friends told him they had given up on their recent relationships: “She mispronounced ‘Goethe.’” “How could I take him seriously after seeing ‘The Road Less
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Ask Polly | Heather Havrilesky | Substack
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Today, I can barely tell anyone apart. Many of the Substacks I follow use these big, figurative words that don’t really make sense in an attempt to go viral, which on this platform means getting subscribers and notes and comments. It’s like there’s this internet language that “works” for engagement (literal language, but also sense of style, and a ... See more
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Deep Roots, Hard Looks, and Change — Permanent Equity: Investing in Companies that Care What Happens Next
Emily Holdmanpermanentequity.comLook at your wardrobe. Your routines. Your meals. Your home. Ask yourself if they reflect the person you want to be. If not, start editing.
Gabrielle Dubois Meloffsubstack.com“things of the world,” by which she means precisely the human-built world, in, as she put it, “stabilizing human life” — anchors of identity; but maybe not anchors but rather navigational beacons that help us map the self across time.)
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
This entire notion of “the perfect mom/wife/homemaker,” of the “nostalgic siren call for a return to Fifties-style homemaking,” is a considerable misunderstanding of what Martha Stewart actually transmits, the promise she makes her readers and viewers, which is that know-how in the house will translate to can-do outside it.