'Is My Sexy Poet Friend Manipulating Me?'

You need to spend some time thinking about the value of boundaries.

Interior with Sudden Joy (1951) by Dorothea Tanning

This column originally ran on March 18, 2020. Everything was just starting to shut down thanks to the pandemic, but I’d been obsessively following the news about Covid for months by then, so I was anxious to warn readers that we were in for a long slog of stress and isolation.

Four and a half years late…