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Home/News from NPR/In A Grief-Filled Year, Brands From Etsy To Pandora Let You Skip Mother’s Day Emails The small but growing trend is seen as a welcome acknowledgement of people who are grieving, as well as a sign that email marketing is becoming increasingly personalized and socially conscious. In A Grief-Filled Year, Brands From Etsy To Pandora Let You Skip Mother’s Day Emails By Rachel Treisman  May 7, 2021 Mackenzie Walton’s first Father’s Day without her dad was shaping up to be tough. Then the marketing emails hit. “I saw some ‘Don’t forget Dad!’ messaging and panicke...

Jordan Kirchner Mackenzie Walton's first Father's Day without her dad was shaping up to be tough. Then the marketing emails hit. "I saw some 'Don't forget Dad!' messaging and panicked because I hadn't bought him a present, which led to some ugly crying in the bathroom at work when I abruptly remembered why I hadn't been shopping yet," the Cincinnati-based freelance editor told NPR over email. That was in 2007. And when Walton's mom passed away just shy of a decade later, she said she really became aware of how "relentlessly brutal that stretch of spring can be when you don't have parents ...

Jordan Kirchner toggle caption Jordan Kirchner In a year where loss, grief, technology and identity have been at the forefront of the national conversation, the budding trend of email opt-outs are for many both a welcome change and a sign of what may lie ahead. Jordan Kirchner Mackenzie Walton's first Father's Day without her dad was shaping up to be tough. Then the marketing emails hit. "I saw some 'Don't forget Dad!' messaging and panicked because I hadn't bought him a present, which led to some ugly crying in the bathroom at work when I abruptly reme...

UT Health East Texas opens COVID-19 recovery clinic to help patients with lingering problems Covid Recovery Clinic By Blake Holland | April 30, 2021 at 5:33 PM CDT - Updated April 30 at 9:18 PM TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - From UT Health East Texas: UT Health East Texas Physicians on Monday will open a COVID-19 Recovery Clinic at UT Health North Campus Tyler that is designed to treat patients who have recovered from COVID-19 but continue to experience lingering health issues. At the clinic, a multidisciplinary team will screen, assess, treat and provide referrals for patients who continue to e...

May 1, 2021 By Anna Sale Ms. Sale is the host of the podcast “Death, Sex & Money” and the author of the forthcoming book, “Let’s Talk About Hard Things,” from which this essay is adapted. We’ve forgotten how to talk to people. For more than a year, we have mostly been apart. We’ve learned to put a premium on efficiency, whether in masked exchanges on street corners or on work calls between distractions. We talk fast and abruptly shift from greetings to agenda-driven updates. Then we replay it when we’re back in isolation. Our entire social lives have become a middle school dan...