The "75 and Sunny" Edition
Readers,
It’s that time of year again when I complain, super-boringly, about people who stake their weather-small-talk on something like this claim:
Random day in June #1; get in elevator; greet neighbor A with pleasantry; response “it’s so hot! we had no ‘spring’?”
Random day in June #2, maybe even the next day. Get in elevator; greet neighbor B with pleasantry; response: “it’s still so cold. The next thing you know it’s going to be so hot. What happened to ‘spring’?”
Repeat. Pretty much every day til it’s actually…summer! when it’s actually 90+degrees and 100% humidity.
My point is, when it’s in the 50’s and 60’s during the night and 70’s, maybe low ‘80’s during the day, with no humidity, that’s called…Spring! Like you’re not wearing a down jacket and you’re not hot in a t-shirt. Enjoy it! Revel in it! Don’t complain about it!!
And also, it peeves me because now I’m complicit in the sin of boring weather-small-talk.
Apologies.
Better luck to me next week on having something interesting to say.
I did have something interesting to say in my new book, Letters From The Corporation of Brown University. It’s about how students grow up and change the world and, simultaneously, can’t believe they grew up and changed the world. If you want to read it now, the book is available exclusively at The Brown Bookstore. If you are still amortizing your Prime membership, it’s available for pre-order at Amazon. I now travel with a Sharpie so if I run into you and you’ve nicely bought my book, I will sign it for you!
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PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
A Record Year For America’s Richest Self-Made Women 2024 via Forbes
POLITICS:
How Mexico, Bastion Of Machismo, Got A Female President Before The United States via The Washington Post
Conservatives Tied To Trump Want To Limit Insurance Coverage For Abortions via The Washington Post
Republicans Hide Their War On Contraception In Plain Sight via Salon
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS:
Meet The Greek Heiress Transforming The $14 Trillion Dollar Shipping Industry via Magic and Loss
HISTORY:
Malicious Midwives, Fruitful Vines, and Bearded Women — Sex, Gender, and Medical Expertise In The Journal via The New England Journal Of Medicine
HEALTH:
A Male Birth Control Pill Is One Step Closer To Reality, and That’s Worth Celebrating via The Guardian
THE ARTS & POP CULTURE:
The Miss AI Beauty Pageant Ushers In A New Type Of Influencer via NPR
Dating Horror Stories From Our Readers via The Cut
”Painting An Inclusive History: Maine Women In Politics” via The Margaret Chase Smith Library
Women and The Piano via Pianodao
BOOK NOOK:
Two Books To Help You Go Gray Gracefully via The New York Times
“Matrescence” and The Transformations of Motherhood via The New Yorker
SPORTS:
Twelve Thoughts On The Caitlin Clark Take-pocolypse via The Ringer
GHOULISH:
Stolen Remains Found In Plastic Bag Traced To Woman Born 160 Years Ago via The New York Times
OBITUARY:
Jeannette Charles, Who Doubled For The Queen, Is Dead At 96 via The New York Times
Bette Nash, World’s Longest Serving Flight Attendant, Is Dead At 88 via The New York Times
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