Links July 14th, 2022

I love when I bat a draft of an article back to an editor, and its off my desk for a day or two. I can pretend that it’s perfect and brilliant and catch up on other stuff in my life. This freelance lifestyle is okay in many ways. I think it would be almost impossible to put me in a 9-5 desk ever again.

How about some links before I go out for some exercise?

I’m still thinking about whether or not the media has become too scary and depressing, and nobody wants to watch it anymore. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I am definitely consuming more light, lifestyle-type information on social media than I did in the past. On the other, I do think that the media underreported some depressing stories about kids’ lives destroyed by the shutdowns.

I spend too much time looking at Instagram Stories and have been making them, too.

Incredible article by @AlecMacGillis with heroic profiles of the people living through the crime surge in Phila. Still reading it. School shutdowns and online actives during the pandemic play a role in this ongoing tragedy.

Picture: Where did my babies go? And does Payless still make those sandals?