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BIG FRIENDSHIP: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. A review by Nina Badzin. As a friendship advice columnist and a longtime listener of the popular podcast Call Your …
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I slice my finger during the turmoil of getting dinner ready on time, with the help of an eager, clumsy child. There is a moment between the cut and the pain. I’m doing quarantine wrong, I …
My daughter works as a cashier at a food market. Back in March, shortly before Florida’s “safer-at-home order,” her boss handed her a letter identifying her as an essential worker. “Keep it to show …
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My cell phone vibrates while I am on a conference call with the CEO of my company. We’re talking about the impending layoffs and I am trying not to cry, gearing up to tell half of my team that they …
By Chelsey Drysdale In the late ‘80s, a mysterious illness hit me with debilitating vertigo, plastering me to the same family room floor where my parents and I now treat the Roku box like a shrine …
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by Krissy Dieruf I'm stuffing my feelings—all of them, every day. I am a clinical therapist, so I know better. But quarantine during COVID-19 has created an abundance of confusion, too many …
