Burner Census Data & The Queen of Cringe
Plus: Having Kids In The End Times, Mormon YA Authors, and Dating Refunds 🔥😬🤰📚💸
Welcome to your mid-week quickie! This is your bonus, even-less-strings-attached newsletter to get you through the week.
What’s On My Mind
A short week means an extra short quickie.
Not only am I catching up from the long weekend, but our air conditioner has been out for three days of this Toronto heat warning.
Every night feels like this:
Pray for us.
Weekly Reads
Having a Kid at the End of the World🤰
Speaking of the weather… This piece beautifully outlines the fear, guilt, and confusion parents-to-be are facing.
“Most of us have no reason to believe the future we were promised has ever existed, so for anyone thinking about their first or another kid now, imagining a future for them at all makes that leap harder and harder to make.”
Her Cringiest Childhood Moments Made Her a TikTok Star Today 😬
She is all of us. We are all her.
“In 2012, he posted a selfie captioned, “normal is boring.” Ten minutes later, she uploaded her own selfie showing her staring wide-eyed into the camera while biting the ear of a stuffed bear. The caption read: “I will NEVER be normal!!! ^_^”
An Unexpected Hotbed of Y.A. Authors: Utah 📚
It’s not just a genre. It’s a lifestyle.
“Books on this list may have some occurrences of the tamest expletives. Sexual references might occur but nothing explicit.”
Bird's Impressive Courtship Dance Moves Fail to Impress Partner 🦜
I’ve been cracking up over this article (and accompanying video) all morning.
“A bird put on the performance of his life, he danced, twirled, hopped, and sang his little heart out. Sadly, this was all in vain.”
One-Liners
Who got stuck at Burning Man? According to their census data, a lot of married, white 37-year-olds (and this person’s therapist) 📊
For nosey neighbours: this TikTok account tours strangers’ apartments 👀
Single men are now requesting money back if they don’t see an ROI after the first date 💸 🙄
Here’s a list of all the movies coming out this fall 🍿
Serotonin Boost
Last Thought:
I’ll be on The GIST’s IG live at 12:30 pm ET interviewing Fredrik Backman (!!!) about his book, Beartown.
I know. I’m freaking out, too!
Watch me fangirl (and possibly puke) here 👇
