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I kept hearing about Fat Bear Week and thought it was a celebration of body positivity within a gay subculture. It turns out it is about actual bears! Either way, I am here for it. 🐻🏳️‍🌈

Oh, this poem by @adalimon:

I am SO excited, Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach, to hear you talking about personality testing! After my husband and I separated, I became obsessed with type and compatibility. I then started dating a woman: nytimes.com/2019/02/01/sty…

'She became anxious, volatile, suspicious, and withdrawn. And I began the painful process of trying to cope with my daughter’s addiction.' motherwellmag.com/2022/09/29/add…

“The bittersweet is about the desire for communion, the wish to go home.” — from Susan Cain’s BITTERSWEET (h/t Lauren Apfel)

Love this one. Thanks Marie Curie.

That time I joined BeReal on my 45th birthday.

My new essay on Motherwell about connection, ageing, and finding the soft ways through the trials of a perimenopausal post-pandemic world. Oh, and it’s also about why I love my BeReal account. motherwellmag.com/2022/12/01/why…

Never.

Our February Group Text pick is “My Last Innocent Year,” by Daisy Florin, a debut novel about a college senior in the ’90s. On the brink of the “real world,” she grapples with finances, grief and a relationship with a professor. nyti.ms/3lfYfSA

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you." ––Carl Jung

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it" ~ Hannah Arendt

This is the incredible story of Marlena Fejzo, who suffered tremendously from #hyperemesis gravidarum and became determined to solve the mysteries of this long under-recognized and under-treated condition. Thank you, Marlena Fejzo, for letting me tell it. A quick 🧵 nytimes.com/2023/03/14/wel…

Is it me, or is Amazon trying a bit too hard?

Such a clever one.

Excellent piece by @AdrianaBarton on the challenges (and joys?) of writing a hybrid memoir. It’s my favourite genre, one of the most complicated but, with that, one of the most rewarding: janefriedman.com/how-to-write-a… Jane Friedman

Sunday joy. nytimes.com/badges/games/v…

Feeling seen, NYT Mini Crossword.

As the aforementioned mother: 💯

“I couldn’t wait for my son to go, I couldn’t bear the thought of him gone.” New piece on Motherwell from Lauren Apfel, with shout outs to Susan Cain, Jennifer Senior, The Decemberists, and, of course, Julia Donaldson: motherwellmag.com/2023/10/25/the…