Your monthly horoscope is here and it’s deliciously chaotic (“Cancer, you sentient hothouse flower, I hope you are taking extra attentive care of yourself right now. The most sensitive and emotional sign in the celestial menagerie, when you are particularly open you feel the emotions of everyone in the room, in the grocery store, in the Uber, everywhere.”)
Over on Twitter, Melburnians are getting honest about how lockdown v2 is affecting their family, their jobs & their mental health
This transcript of two female friends talking about why they don’t want kids (over a few drinks) is like eavesdropping on a private and fascinating conversation
Thoughts on ambition and where it goes when the things you were striving for cease to exist (“The pandemic has killed the possibility of the maybes, the shots in the dark at finding a position in which I can do good work. My personal ambition still roils in my belly, but the path forward is less clear than ever.”)
How to mask (aka very fucking funny)
If you’ve read Fleishman Is In Trouble, stop what you’re doing immediately: the author Taffy Brodesser Akner has released an internet-only sequel that takes place in the aftermath of the pandemic and bloody hell, it’s juicy and gooooood (“Toby Fleishman awoke one morning inside a city he had lived in most of his adult life but no longer recognised — a desiccated husk of a city, a city that was quiet and scary with bare streets and closed bodegas and a wartime dread.”)
“After I became a mother I learned that I am a woman, and after that, I learned what people think of women. It happened very fast.”
The Guardian have started profiling people experiencing unemployment for the first time due to Covid-19 and the stories are sobering. You can read the first interview here and the second one here
What to feed a vegetarian at a barbeque
Because we all need small acts of kindness more than ever right now, here’s some tips from the wise Ann Friedman on the art of the care package
How to pick the right pasta shape for your sauce
Incredibly useful advice on hiring a diverse staff (this is about a coffee shop but it applies to basically anyone who manages a team or runs a business)
Podcast rec! This week Lizzie’s been bingeing on Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment, the story of James Arthur Ray, an Oprah-endorsed self-help teacher who became famous for creating the DVDs of The Secret and then started a cult, before it all ended in a mass suicide. Insanely addictive listening
Swooning over pretty much every room in this apartment
