In traffic in front of a car with DEFENDER written across the front…mate, we live in suburban New Jersey

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat.

much like Valentine's Day, I think the main impact of Mother's Day is less celebratory, more to make ppl feel a sharpening of loss or absence

Love the subtext of a sensitive marketing email asking if I’d like to opt out of their Mother’s Day comms, implying that I want to receive the rest of them

Is it irony or is it a humorless creative director

Excellent primer on #lynchsyndrome by Eduardo Vilar mdanderson.org/cancerwise/qa-…

A generation of young American women saved today from dating British men with typewriters. An act of service

Did not work for me! Appreciate this analysis

Sometime I’d love to read a flinching debut

Wrote about trying new things open.substack.com/pub/jhethread/…

Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memory…

Big day for writers with day jobs