Anecdotes and narrative snippets from all corners, plus short essays on whatever comes to mind.
1. My boyfriend Eric has been gone for three days and I am basically living like a squatter in my own apartment. I’ve been eating donuts for lunch and frozen pizza rolls for dinner since he left. And right now I’m wearing the same stained Harvard Tee that I put on yesterday afternoon. I’m also writing … Continue reading On Love & Entropy
Every flu season, one (or several) of my editors asks me what the latest flu news is and if I have any “fresh takes” to offer. One year, while on staff at Newsweek, I casually mentioned that 1) I used to work in a vaccine factory, and 2) I had never actually gotten a flu shot myself. … Continue reading The Vaccine Factory
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