by crissly | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Momfluenced is a generous book. When Petersen evaluates how these women operate, she treads gently. She’s harder on affluent, cisgendered, white internet moms, some of whom she views as “cringe follows” (they’re unbearably corny and/or have bad politics) and others... 
by crissly | Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Technology is exerting an ever-growing influence on our world. A cast including Facebook—or Meta—Google, and Apple, with leads like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Elizabeth Holmes, looms large in the public consciousness. Give the gift of knowledge to enlighten the... 
by crissly | Oct 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
“I listen to a lot of books on audio. It works for me. But certain more literary friends of mine say it doesn’t quite count as reading. Part of me wants to read more, but I find it much easier to listen. What do you think? Should I care?”—Easy ListeningDear Easy,I... 
by crissly | Oct 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
These might be reforms that operate within the current system and try to make it slightly better. The ones I find most encouraging are the ones that are linked to a much bigger shift in either perspective or in the way that we arrange things. So the Inflation... 
by crissly | Sep 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
When Rachel Aviv was six years old, she stopped eating. Shortly after, she was hospitalized with anorexia. Her doctors were flummoxed. They’d never seen a child so young develop the eating disorder, yet there she was. Was it a response to her parents’ divorce? Diet... 