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My Aging Husband — A lament and an ode to…

My Aging Husband
A lament and an ode to the 50-something man in my house.
Heather Havrilesky
Feb 23, 2022
— Read on www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a39008078/heather-havrilesky-aging-husband/

5 Signs of “Breadcrumbing” in a Relationship Breadcrumbing often contains elements of narcissism and manipulation. Posted February 25, 2022

By chance I spotted this review, and I enjoyed it. Four Bittersweet Romances & Four-Act Closet Drama

A Book Review of my book: Four Bittersweet Romances & a Four-Act Closet Drama — Lawrence G. Taylor

My Daughter is in White Denial — Nicki Cavender

Interview Colson Whitehead: ‘We invent all sorts of different reasons to hate people’ Sean O’Hagan Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead’s two Pulitzer-winning novels explore America’s history of racial injustice. From his Long Island home, he discusses protest and the crisis in American politics, and his 2011 novel about a pandemic

The World’s ‘Happiest’ Countries Harbor a Dark Side, Wellbeing Study Reveals BROCK BASTIAN, THE CONVERSATION 18 FEBRUARY 2022

The World’s ‘Happiest’ Countries Harbor a Dark Side, Wellbeing Study Reveals BROCK BASTIAN, THE CONVERSATION 18 FEBRUARY 2022

“There were no brothels, no craps games worth a damn, nobody worth beating senseless. Nothing to do but complain, smoke reefer, and remove leeches from your balls.” (from “Harlem Shuffle: A Novel” by Colson Whitehead)

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Death on the Nile and addressing racism in Agatha Christie — With Kenneth Branagh’s second Hercule Poirot film out, Christie is hot Hollywood property once more. But how should adaptors navigate her books’ attitude to race, asks David Jesudason. Yet adapting Agatha Christie as mass 21st-Century entertainment is not without its complications: they are products of the time they were written in, the mid-20th Century, and arguably reflect some unsavoury attitudes not least when it comes to racism, xenophobia and colonialism. The question is therefore: how do you translate and update Agatha Christie – or not – for the modern age?

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Month: February 2022

My Aging Husband — A lament and an ode to…

5 Signs of “Breadcrumbing” in a Relationship Breadcrumbing often contains elements of narcissism and manipulation. Posted February 25, 2022

By chance I spotted this review, and I enjoyed it. Four Bittersweet Romances & Four-Act Closet Drama

A Book Review of my book: Four Bittersweet Romances & a Four-Act Closet Drama — Lawrence G. Taylor

My Daughter is in White Denial — Nicki Cavender

The World’s ‘Happiest’ Countries Harbor a Dark Side, Wellbeing Study Reveals BROCK BASTIAN, THE CONVERSATION 18 FEBRUARY 2022

The World’s ‘Happiest’ Countries Harbor a Dark Side, Wellbeing Study Reveals BROCK BASTIAN, THE CONVERSATION 18 FEBRUARY 2022

“There were no brothels, no craps games worth a damn, nobody worth beating senseless. Nothing to do but complain, smoke reefer, and remove leeches from your balls.” (from “Harlem Shuffle: A Novel” by Colson Whitehead)