There’s No Real Reason to Eat 3 Meals a Day
“Your weird pandemic eating habits are probably fine.”
Of the many aspects of daily living that the COVID-19 pandemic has rejiggered, eating patterns probably rank high on the list. Amanda Mull, staff writer for The Atlantic, describes how she came up with her notion of Big Meal.
A Model and Her Norman Rockwell Meet Again
“The illustrator’s paintings told his stories. Now a teenage subject reveals her own, 67 years later.”
Here’s an interesting story for those of us who grew up with Norman Rockwell’s covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
They can only hold hands, but for Britain’s elderly, first touch with a relative ‘means everything’
A year of pandemic isolation protocols has left us numb to how this disease has changed our lives. This is a heartwarming story of how people are beginning to get some of their humanity back.
Finding Your Voice After 50
“While many manuscripts worthy of publication land on the desks of 20-something-year-old agents, a great majority are written by women over the age of 50 and targeted to a more mature reader,” writes Heidi McCrary.
For aspiring writers over 50, McCrary, “a woman 50+ . . . looking forward to the second half of my own story,” has four pieces of advice.
Friends by Robin Dunbar review – how important are your pals?
Rachel Cooke reviews the book Friends by Robin Dunbar, which concludes that “the quality of our relationships determines our health, happiness and chance of a long life.”
Cooke notes, “Dunbar could not have known that his book would be published in a time of such loneliness.”
Final thoughts
“Do deathbed regrets give us a special insight into what really matters in life? There are good reasons to be sceptical”
Neil Levy, professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney and senior research fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, examines the concept of deathbed regrets. In order to find out what really matters in life, he says, one method is to ask the dying what they most regret. “There’s very little systematic research on this question, but there’s some unsystematic research,” he writes.
Read why Levy says, “I’m not convinced that the reported regrets of the dying provide us with reasons to think them valuable.”
© 2021 by Mary Daniels Brown
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