This past Saturday I had a strange experience. I was unaccountably weary all day. I felt as if I’d spent the previous day strenuously exerting myself and then gotten only half a night’s sleep. . . It didn’t occur to me until after I’d turned the light out that night that I’d had the second dose of the Shingrix shingles vaccine the day before…
Category: Miscellany
A Masked New World
If someone had told me in January that within six months I would be in possession of a veritable wardrobe of face masks, well . . . you can imagine.
Cutting Back on the News
I hear from more and more people that they’ve cut down on their news consumption because they just can’t take the stress. For some it was Donald Trump’s presidency that made the news too painful to follow closely. For others the tipping point was the coronavirus pandemic. The two phenomena together can make reading or watching the news a veritable exercise in masochism…
Terry Gross on How to Talk With People
In a previous post, I shared my favorite conversation starter: “So what’s making your life interesting these days?” Today I came across a New York Times interview with Terry Gross in which she shares tips for having better conversations . . .