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Parenthood is a long, controlled process of letting go | 1843 magazine

It was April 2019. I was seven months pregnant and in Topshop, looking for something large in which to rehome my body. I was wearing a maternity dress that, if you had seen me pregnant, you would have recognised – a cheap, pleated wraparound in a red floral print that expanded as I expanded. I imagined Issey Miyake, but increasingly looked more like an armchair. It had served me well, but I was determined to buy something, anything, to see me...

The Mick Clifford Podcast: Mark O’Connell-End of the World as they know it. How do you prepare for the end of the world? One writer set out to find out. This week's guest on the Mick Clifford podcast is Mark O'Connell, author of Notes From an Apocalypse-A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back.  Fri, 07 May, 2021 - 22:54 Mick Clifford Author Mark O’Connell spent two years travelling around the globe meeting individuals and groups who are preparing for, well, the end.  Notes From an Apocalypse – A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back is his fascinat...

KEYNOTES: Rotarians adapt to online setting Rosemary Rimkus The confines of COVID-19 have forced the Hudson Rotary Club to adapt its meetings and its aims. Organized in 1923, almost one hundred years later the Hudson service organization has swapped its weekly meetings at the Hudson Portuguese Club for bi-weekly “Zoom” meetings, and in recent years dropped its mandatory weekly attendance rules. Hudson Town Moderator Richard Harrity, current club president, said when Covid restrictions were announced in March 2020, the club attempted outdoor meetings for a few months, “but in the Fall th...

Listen 51 min MORE What’s the obsession with the end of times, and do America’s historical roots inspire survivalism? Image by Zastolskiy Victor/Shutterstock. Throughout history, there have always been a small group of people who prepare for doomsday.  Today, according to a YouGov poll conducted in 2020, roughly one in five Americans feel that an apocalypse is coming. So what’s the obsession with the end of times, and do America’s historical roots inspire survivalism?  KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian learns about the l...