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All of this is hard. It’s hard for people who are parenting in isolation. It’s hard for people whose income is jeopardized. It’s hard for people who ha…
Anne Helen Petersen
Mar 22
Yesterday I heard from people in four very different locations, from four very different walks of life, who’d either been 1) diagnosed with COVID-19; 2…
Anne Helen Petersen
Mar 15
Like so many others, I’ve spent the week thinking about Democratic politics (exhausting!) and COVID-19 (also exhausting!) As many have noted, America i…
Anne Helen Petersen
Mar 8 6
Haag is part of a wave of young workers who have been unionizing in sectors with little or no tradition of unions: art museums, including the Guggenhei…
Anne Helen Petersen
Mar 1 2
I’m on a plane on 6 am on a Sunday morning, flying to New York to appear on a show that 4th grade nerdy me would be astonished by, followed by a quick …
Anne Helen Petersen
Feb 23
“Tell a subset of your population that they are entitled to economic security if they play by certain rules, provide them with four years of training i…
Anne Helen Petersen
Feb 17
That shot was taken over the Clark Fork in Missoula, Montana, about halfway through my 12 mile marathon training run earlier this week. I used to be st…
Anne Helen Petersen
Feb 2
I’m back on Lummi Island this week, a place I’ve written about in the newsletter before. I took the week to drill down on final edits for my book, and …
Anne Helen Petersen
Jan 26
I’ve spent the last few weeks thinking about leisure and productivity, as I research and begin to draft an additional chapter for the millennial burnou…
Anne Helen Petersen
Jan 12
I wrote a lot this past month — for BuzzFeed, in book edits, just not in this newsletter, which I hate, because this newsletter works as a sort of rele…
Anne Helen Petersen
Dec 29, 2019
I spent the weekend on Lummi Island, in the Salish Sea off Western Washington. It’s not far, nautically, from the San Juan Islands, but instead of taki…
Anne Helen Petersen
Dec 9, 2019
First off, tremendous thanks to each of you who sent me missives — between one sentence and multiple pages — on what parts of civilization you love pay…
Anne Helen Petersen
Nov 25, 2019
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