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
I filed the first draft of a big story yesterday, one that took months to work on and weeks to write. I celebrated by wandering through the Greek and Roman collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and making a brief detour into the renovated Oceanic gallery). Among many inspiring things, I saw this bust of a woman: It was … Continue reading Of microbes and marble quarries
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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