Don’t catch feelings.

Be the “chill girl.”

No regrets.

The fear might be more dangerous than the disease…

As of this year, people are considered “fearmongers” if they talk honestly about a pandemic in which 40,000 people have died in fewer than two months.

I’ve got an idea.

Let’s be strong and admit that it’s ok to be scared of a once-in-a-century virus that sometimes appears to kill quickly and indiscriminately.

People have searched for reasons to believe it won’t affect them — to believe their fairy tale that it will only touch certain people. “Oh, it’s only people with…

I’ve made a lot of resolutions and broken them, so why bother? For this year, here are resolutions for all the rest of you.

1. If you start a sentence with “I don’t know how to tell you this” or “I don’t know how to say this,” you’ll end there, both for reasons of morality and accuracy.

2. You will not buzz me into your apartment for half a second so that I end up bouncing off the second door and having to go back and re-buzz. …

New Year’s Eve to New Year’s Day may just be the deadliest 24 hours for domestic violence. From 5 p.m. New Year’s Eve in 2017 to 5 p.m. New Year’s Day in 2018, 10 women across the U.S. — different ages, socioeconomic groups, and ethnicities — were killed by a past or present partner. For comparison’s sake, on an average day, two or three women are killed by intimate partners.

If it happens again this year, will one of the 10 victims be someone you know, or will one of the perpetrators be someone in your family who you worry…

I see them every year, without exception, starting around Thanksgiving — three or four (never fewer) Facebook posts from friends and acquaintances who are disappointed they’ll be alone for the holidays. They don’t want to impose on their friends (they say it’s demoralizing to feel “like a charity case”), yet they’re frustrated that they have to remind relatives (if they have them) to reach out. These self-described “holiday orphans” are isolated for various reasons. In some cases, alienation or complex relationships divided their families, but in others, relatives simply didn’t bother to ask if the person had somewhere to go.

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Dullsville

12 Morton Lane: Gives out BBBats which “s-s-suck,” and “no one eats them even when fr-fr-free.” The skeleton hanging on the door is “fitting,” because “once you see what they’re giving out you’ll stay skinny forever.” The two BMW’s in the driveway are “misleading.”

The Doubting Thomases

173 Medford Road: Old couple gives out bags of cashews and shelled peanuts “because no one had food allergies when they were growing up” and “it’s probably a hoax” and “today’s kids ought to ‘toughen up.’ ” However, both husband and wife “lack a medical degree.”

Rich Cheapskates

88 Charles St.: This house “gives out Mary Janes,” prompting…

By now it’s no secret that one of the most popular essay topics on Medium is, “How to Make Money on Medium.” While some of these pieces give helpful advice, others provide examples you can’t employ unless you’re a tech whiz writing about how to use your iPhone for space travel — or you’re willing to tell your deepest, darkest secrets.

As a writer who wants to reach as many readers as I can, and who finds it validating to earn money when I do, I understand the reason for reading the “How to Make Money” stories. In fact, when…

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Let’s see what happened in America in just the last week:

— In Maine on Tuesday, a mom put her twin 8-year-old daughters on a bus to school. Her boyfriend, the girls’ father, shot her to death soon afterward. Neighbors said that he had made threats days earlier, and the girls yelled, “Don’t kill our mom!” (Naturally, there are comments on the web blaming the victim for not simply leaving.) And also: