pandemic

It is just the monotony of life. We are into our third lockdown, and it feels like it is simultaneously our first, yet somehow also our fifth. Time is standing still, but life is passing us by. The last social interactions we may have had…

I’m in a cottage by Coney Island, looking out at a relentless and grey Irish sea. I’ve come here to the natural fringe of the island to try and process what has been the strangest of years. The beach is a mere ten metres away across a…

The Power of Positive Thinking was an immediate sensation on its release. Blending radical optimism with Christian superstition, Norman Vincent Peale offered his readers a revolutionary path to supreme self-confidence. The first self-help…

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to the point of closure. Some people and companies, however, have been able to pivot their business models and learn to adapt to the “new” way of normal. This is especially apparent in the…

The central tenet behind ideals of self-care and self-improvement are seemingly benign and, largely, inarguably sound. Its most attractive quality lies in its inherent vagueness and adaptability, personalised maintenance routines undertaken…

It seems like every exercise class under the sun is now being offered online. I've seen practically everything on offer, from spinning and aeriel classes to gymnastics and ballet. Friends and family of mine who never did a yoga class before…

A few weeks ago, Twitter’s algorithm showed me one of the most circulated recipes of the lockdown. It’s a coffee recipe, made with instant coffee grounds, sugar, hot water and milk. If you spend time on social media, you’ve almost certainly…

In the interest of strengthening national solidarity and by extension inspire compliance to preventative public health measures, a narrative of ‘we are in this together’ pervades popular and political discourse surrounding Covid-19. Such…

COVID-19 has imposed a new way of living on many of us. With necessary restrictions on movement at a national and international level, normality is on temporarily hold and our pace of life reduced to a crawl. While unlike other disasters…

You’ve probably heard terms like “social isolation” and “quarantine” a lot lately, thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic that has swept through the globe. All states now have formal closure mandates for their schools, and many states have made…