It’s just about time for the annual onslaught of year-end reviews. Pretty soon, every news show, magazine, and digital outlet will whip out montages of The Best Of. While I will confess that the tradition makes me a little batty, I also completely get the need for a break from the content creation grind. Spoiler alert: I will not be sending you a highlights reel about anything – not about COVID, and certainly not about puberty. (Though I can't resist a visual summary of 2021 vaccines-that-went-into-my-arm!)

Feels important to take a moment, though, to share a few things that popped onto my screen this week. READ MORE