Collective Trauma and Anniversary Effects: What Shared Events Do to Us
Every year, around a particular week in March, something shifts in the collective mood in a way that’s hard to pin down. People feel vaguely...
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Every year, around a particular week in March, something shifts in the collective mood in a way that’s hard to pin down. People feel vaguely...
Read Article →You’ve had a pretty good month. You’ve been sleeping, working, showing up. And then you wake up on a specific morning and the weight is...
Read Article →You’re sitting in the doctor’s office and you hear the word. Cancer. Multiple sclerosis. Parkinson’s. Heart failure. Whatever word it was, something happened in that...
Read Article →You’ve worked for four decades. You’ve looked forward to retirement for years, maybe decades. You have a pension, savings, a partner, a plan. And then...
Read Article →You got the call on a Tuesday morning. Or maybe it was an email. Maybe it was a meeting that had been scheduled with no...
Read Article →Six weeks after moving to the new city, you have a great apartment and a job you wanted and a neighborhood people tell you is...
Read Article →It’s 3 a.m. The baby has been fed, changed, and held, and is still crying, and has been crying for forty minutes, and you’re sitting...
Read Article →You’re engaged. People are congratulating you. Your mother is already texting about venues. Someone asked you in the first week if you’ve set a date,...
Read Article →You’re wrapping presents and you pick up the tape and for a moment you can’t figure out why the sight of tape and ribbon is...
Read Article →Somewhere around the second week of December, many people hit a wall. The shopping list is half-done, the family plans are generating group text friction,...
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