Your weekly links and recs round-up #36

Fast cars, bad decisions, One Day and more

Joni Mitchell performing Both Sides Now at the Grammys, 50 years after her first win

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• Where has Tracy Chapman been? Or, as I prefer to put it, what happens when an introvert is exposed to too many people too much of the time!
• And on the subject of TC, I adore this gorgeous paean to Fast Car. (You can see her full Grammys performance with Luke Combs below. It’s been giving me joy all week long.)
• Have we reached peak menopause marketing? (Includes quotes from me and a lovely shout-out for The Shift.)
• On losing my home and everything in it.

Clover Stroud

has joined Substack and she’s off to a flying start.
• Absolutely love this piece about getting married in Manhattan’s old, no-frills City Hall by

Sari Botton

. Mainly because we did, too.
• “Going on holiday with my parents in my 40s transformed our relationship.”
• Joan Collins, croissants, and me.
• How to beat off the brain-pickers. More no-nonsense genius from Sarah (no-fucks) Knight.