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In my continued journey through your summer publishing questions, I came across this gem: Jyotsna went on to ask if we are telling instead of showing now—or still showing instead of telling? Regarding interiority, what’s a writer to think? Let’s start off with the definition of interiority: According to Vocabulary.com, “Interiority is a characteristic of being private, inward, or introspective. A writer can convey her characters' interiority by describing their innermost thoughts.

One of my best/oldest friends is in a polyamorous relationship and has been for many years. Regardless of what someone's relationship can be classified as - each relationship is entirely its own beautiful story, with its own unique heartbeat. Anyone poo-pooing at love and community needs to find those things for themselves STAT. On music: I love music with every fiber of my being. I feel like I listen to everything all at once (the person's voice, the lyrics, the instruments).

It seems that vaginal boric acid is the new natural “it” product promoted by vaginal profiteers and influencers.  I’ve seen its use increase among my patients over the past few years, paralleling an explosion of new over the counter (OTC) boric acid products and heavy marketing from celebrities, influencers, naturopaths, and functional medicine providers. From the claims these people make about boric acid, it’s pretty clear those selling and promoting it have no understanding of how boric or the vaginal ecosystem work.

Though the slave trade between West Africa’s warring tribes serves as foreground in ‘The Woman King,’ the film’s main message to me it seems is about womanhood and sisterhood, it’s about the roles that women play, and the heights that women can climb in a society dominated by an almost exclusively male rule, a rule in which women were treated as the property of men.  Toni Wolfe, prominent Jungian scholar of the 20th century wrote about some of these roles in her essay, ‘Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche;’ she depicted at least 4 of those personas, arguing that every woman contains all four: Mother, Hetaira, Amazon, and Medial.

I recently had a great conversation with Shreyas Doshi, where we discussed topics like communication, building a learning mindset, and managing your career as a Product Manager. Inspired by our chat, I thought I would give you a behind-the-scenes look at how performance assessments, calibrations, and ratings work.  I have been a manager for nearly two decades, and I previously helped design a large PM calibration system. There is a lot going on behind the scenes that is invisible to most of the people who get rated, and non-managers usually never see what happens in these closed rooms.

Imagine you’re on a fully packed train platform during peak rush-hour. You’re standing in front of the line while looking your phone screen, completely engulfed in replying to a work email. Out of the blue, you feel a forceful push on your right shoulder! You spasm and completely lose your balance! Suddenly, you feel a hard object hitting your knees and your chest… You realize you have have fallen right onto the train-tracks!

There are many factors in play here including the fact that different people react very differently when hurt. Sometimes blocking the boyfriend can seem like an overreaction and other times it can be viewed as a ploy to test the boyfriend. In these situations, it would be helpful to see it from your girlfriend’s perspective in order for her to take such drastic action. A relationship is made up of two partners and one doesn’t just wake up one day and decide to block the other.

Pete Walker wrote an amazing book called Complex PTSD (2013) in which he described a form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that results from chronic, rather than acute, trauma. Unlike the more familiar PTSD, which can occur as the result of a single incident, C-PTSD results from extended periods of abuse, neglect, or exploitation from which there is no escape. Kayli Kunkel provides a concise description: C-PTSD is a crippling but often misdiagnosed condition.

James Redding Ware was a 19th century British novelist best known for creating (pseudonymously, as Andrew Forrester) one of the first female detectives in fiction — the mysterious Miss G — who bursts onto the scene in the rather unsubtly titled The Female Detective. Miss G (sometimes called Miss Gladden) was making brilliant deductions from far too little evidence more than 40 years before Sherlock Holmes got his start in A Study in Scarlet and almost 70 years before the first Miss Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage, which makes Ware an important early figure in the relatively short history of detective fiction.