It will never cease to amaze me that you can beat yourself up for weeks trying to write something, grinding out crap, and then suddenly, one day, it's just... there. Like you're typing as fast as you can just to keep up with the words flowing. (I will also likely never trust that this will happen.)
Being on Bluesky is in itself a form of age verification.
An observation about this World Cup compared to the previous two. Russia and Qatar made massive efforts for obvious reasons to change public perceptions and really went extra mile with hosting. The United States seems to not care about external reputational harm in same way. And we are seeing that.
Five days after my husband died from cancer in June 2013, I started watching the Tour de France. It’s how I survived those first three weeks. In my latest for the @thewalrus.ca, a love letter to the TDF: thewalrus.ca/after-my-hus...
Millions of Women Are Left Out of Menopause’s Moment www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/w...
Nancy Wexler lost her mother, three uncles and grandfather to Huntington's disease. She dedicated her life to researching this condition and her work helped lead to a genetic test. That meant she had to decide whether she'd get tested. Excellent profile in the NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...
I'm late to this story by Chris Jones, but wow, wow, wow. www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
Utah's measles outbreak reflects America’s new reality, in which large outbreaks — the kind not seen for a generation—have forced health officials into a new paradigm: They have stopped racing to “contain” infections and shifted into “mitigation.” kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
Alberta health system 'rudderless,' doctor says, as latest AHS leader departs www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...