Beth Teitell

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Beth Teitell

The is making me sick. I can’t take a cleansing breath without hearing about some podcaster, celebrity — or, god forbid, dear childhood friend — who’s doing something I’m not, thereby forcing me to age by comparison. Billions of dollars are pouring into longevity research and I can barely make myself moisturize. Wherever you look, the anti-aging fanatics are working every angle, ruining it for the rest of us. They’re tucking themselves into hyperbaric oxygen chambers.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Beth Teitell

“I’m a bit paranoid about personal info like my cell getting leaked,” a third worried. And finally: “Be careful.”Ho hum. Just another day in the Karen Read trial. The correspondents were people who had once fervently believed in Read’s innocence, and, who, almost more importantly, had bonded with others in the trial’s grip. They spent their days hearting each other’s social media posts. Some had mustered outside the courthouse or on random roadways waving signs. Raised money for her defense fund.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Beth Teitell

Was it only three years ago when Sheehan and her husband started the IVF process? She’d gotten pregnant naturally with her first child but had turned to fertility treatments for her second. And back then, on a Zoom consultation from their Haverhill home with her doctor, the idea of having a surplus of embryos — of enjoying too much success — was not even something the couple could fully allow themselves to consider.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Beth Teitell

Is this some cruel joke? With everything else coming at us, now we’re supposed to start raising backyard chickens, too? Apparently. In early March, with egg prices soaring and shortages so bad even Whole Foods shoppers have been affected, President Trump’s secretary of agriculture took to Fox News to blithely offer a solution: Americans should get their own flocks.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Beth Teitell

On the surface, the magnets on the rear bumper of Rachel Segall’s Tesla seem funny. “Here for zero emissions, not Elon,” reads one. “Bought it before we knew how awful he is,” proclaims another. Segall, a therapist in Newton, bought the car because she wanted to drive an electric vehicle.