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Living in a Religious World as a Non-Believer According to the Pew Research Center, 75.8% of the world’s population identified as religious in 2020. That leaves a quarter of humanity, the “nones,” left to navigate a world that can be very different to the one their religious peers inhabit. For those raised in or married […]
In 2022, I first mentioned my skin picking to my then-psychiatrist. During this appointment, she first thought it was a form of self-harm, but realized it was dermatillomania (or, excoriation disorder) after I further explained it. I was briefly aware of trichotillomania, but I didn’t know that dermatillomania was a health condition. I thought that […]
“I hate sports people.” In a crowded bar that had once been unknown to most people, my husband Christian and I wove our way around people standing in the middle of the space, staring at a projector screen that played a football game. Never before had this bar, our bar, shown sports on their projector; […]
Anatomy Sometimes, everything just fits. Like finding the blessed final piece that will complete a jigsaw puzzle. Like discovering the right lock for a key you inherited from a loved one. The problem is, we often can’t force these moments. They arise when we least expect them to. So often, we fall in love when […]
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The southwest monsoon has arrived in much of India. After months of oppressive summer heat, the first drops of monsoon rain, typically arriving in early June, are greeted with collective relief. Arundhati Roy’s The god of small things, set against the monsoons in Kerala, the Southern state where the monsoon arrives first, describes the beauty […]
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