2022 in navel-gazing review
For numerous life-reasons I still think in terms of school years, not calendar years, and so am struggling to remember what marked the beginning of 2022, and whether it had any significance. I know that 2021 was when I started the job I left to go on maternity leave, and that I no longer had after returning from maternity leave, and that this was a shattering experience. I know that it is now 2022 and I have the good fortune to not only be working once again (after being technically out of work, or is it called underemployed if you’re freelancing, for about five minutes) but doing the exact work I want to be doing.
As for that work, it is available for you to peruse at your leisure!
Here’s my Canadian Jewish News output, a mix of essays, book reviews and, soon, podcasts. More to come. Stay tuned even if you’re not Canadian or Jewish (I’m only one of the two, so who am I to judge.)
This fall I also started writing a column at The Globe and Mail, which involved doing a headshot at the newspaper offices and everything.
And of course of course there is Feminine Chaos, the podcast I do with the brilliant Kat Rosenfield, whose latest novel comes out next month.
I wrote about the political correctness to wokeness trajectory, first at Freddie deBoer’s newsletter, reissued on Bari Weiss’s. Also about sex positivity for The Hedgehog review, the legacy of #MeToo for The Spectator, and the sad-Karen trope for UnHerd.
Oh and! I got to be on Dan Savage’s podcast!!!!
There are also, not to be redundant, the archives here on this newsletter.
That’s the professional end of things. The personal:
Hosted an indoor birthday party for 4-year-olds that did not result in harm to persons or property.
Made efficient use of IKEA drawer organizers.
Hopes for the year to come include:
Redo kitchen to have lower counters (and cabinets, cabinets would be good) and add a downstairs powder room. Lol. Semi-lol. Maybe?
Female heterosexuality project, make some sort of headway. Find a trazillionaire who wants to fund it, with enough left over for the above-mentioned item.
More vegetables, fewer meals based around mini-sized chocolates.