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·Sep 8, 2020

‘Paying Attention’ Is Overrated

Why connection is more important, and how to achieve it — Life during lockdown has demanded constant, unwavering attention. Zooms beget Zooms: school committees, work meetings, happy hours. They blur together, and I find myself zoning out as I nod along with the other disembodied heads. And then there are my children, stalking me while I’m trying to finish some work…

Parenting

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‘Paying Attention’ Is Overrated
‘Paying Attention’ Is Overrated
Parenting

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Heated

·Dec 27, 2019

This Time-Saving Kitchen Tool Took Over My Life

My vacuum sealer made mealtime easy — until it didn’t — Once upon a time, meals were simple. You (and I) bought something, cooked it, and ate. If there were leftovers, we ate them the next day, or they languished in back of the fridge until they bloomed into unrecognizable clumps of once-food. The End. Things are different now. Not only…

Cooking

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This Time-Saving Kitchen Tool Took Over My Life
This Time-Saving Kitchen Tool Took Over My Life
Cooking

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Human Parts

·Oct 7, 2019

Called to the Torah in Trump’s America

My daughter is approaching bat mitzvah age — but I’m ambivalent — This past June, I found myself in the sanctuary of the synagogue where my daughters attend Hebrew school. It was not a Jewish holiday, and I was not praying. …

Judaism

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Called to the Torah in Trump’s America
Called to the Torah in Trump’s America
Judaism

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Elemental

·Jun 24, 2019

Worrying About Worrying About Lyme Disease

One mother reckons with her fear of the illness — and why it freaks us all out so much — This story is part of “Tickpocalypse,” a multi-part special report. Like most people, I can catalog periods of my life by the things I feared, both physical and existential. As a child I was afraid of normal stuff — the dark, roller coasters, monsters — as well as odd, benign…

Lyme Disease

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Worrying About Worrying About Lyme Disease
Worrying About Worrying About Lyme Disease
Lyme Disease

11 min read

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amy brill

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Writer, traveler, mother, napper, author of The Movement of Stars. amybrill.com

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