Don't Bogart My Blog: Sunday Best: How to improve your attention span

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Sunday Best: How to improve your attention span

(And fix other things in you that the internet broke.)

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Sunday, January 13, 2019

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If "caravan" was the word of 2018, "border wall" is already shaping up to be the term of 2019. Who's winning the border wall debate and shutdown standoff so far? Three of our columnists discussed that in this week's episode of our podcast, "The Argument." If you're looking for more of the best things to read, watch and listen to this weekend (while avoiding the word "wall"), keep reading. — Alexandra March

Why I Didn't Answer Your Email

Grace Helmer

By KJ DELL'ANTONIA

These are all of the (very good) reasons you need to put off answering — or never even respond to — that message calling to you from your inbox.

The Wedding Venues of Your Nightmares (That Will Keep Your Budget Low)

Kati Lacker

By R.L. MAIZES

"Everlasting Grace Cemetery: Wedding can be packaged with prepaid funerals. Till death do us part takes on a whole new meaning when a weeping mourner performs the ceremony next to your actual funeral plots."

After Birth: How Motherhood Changed My Relationship With My Body

Bronwen Parker-Rhodes

By BRONWEN PARKER-RHODES

Books can help you secure the right sleep routine for your baby, and friends can offer tips for colic, but no one prepares you for the extreme changes your body undergoes.

Overwhelmed by Tech? Meditate Every Day

Damon Winter/The New York Times

By FARHAD MANJOO

Do you have the attention span of a goldfish? Staring at screens and consuming content nonstop can do that to you. Our new columnist Farhad Manjoo can't promise meditation will fix everything in you that the internet broke. But, he asks, what if it can fix some of it?

The Silver Lining of Your Gray Hairs

Marta Monteiro

By MARY PIPHER

"Our bodies and our sexuality are devalued, we are denigrated by mother-in-law jokes, and we're rendered invisible in the media. Yet, most of the women I know describe themselves as being in a vibrant and happy life stage," Mary Pipher writes. Do you have any desire to be 21 again?