Late‑age Pregnancy Can Be Smooth and Healthy
Got pregnant at 40, old and fat. Pregnancy was shockingly fun and easy, childbirth wasn’t exactly either but I was lucky to have no complications. Baby was perfect when she came out, & remains so 3.5 yrs later.
Overwhelmed by Guilt Over Failing to Protect Loved Ones
I had a total meltdown and despaired I’d ruined my life and already failed this helpless creature I’d committed to stewarding & protecting twice with my puppy, but only once with my baby.
Visible Mic Signals Intentional Performance and Authority
It’s semiotics, like everything, duh. In the era of front-facing first-person video, a visible mic (or holding a lav in-hand, etc) indicates intentionality, performance, authority, and cultivated awareness of above. Distance and expertise rather than the faux intimacy of the...
Noma's Prestige Fueled a Culture of Abuse
What I kept thinking about, reading all these horror stories of working at Noma, is how the restaurant’s exceptionality, its sheer extraordinariness, was essential to its culture of abuse — the institution weaponized its status. My @newyorkermag column ⬇️
Box Mix: Just Pre‑Measured Cake Ingredients, Not a Monster
People are always having these moral freakouts about box mix like it’s some inhuman chemical monstrosity. Beloveds it’s just the dry ingredients for cake in a pre-mixed ratio.