Yoga Journal podcast,
The Yoga Show, host Lindsay Tucker chats with Ginny Hogan, a standup comedian and yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance who writes for outlets such as
The New Yorker,
Vulture.
After leaving a data science job in Silicon Valley, Hogan started a blog comedically analyzing data from her own dating profiles and online dates. Once she found her voice in comedy, Hogan also started down the road to health and wellness by quitting drinking and getting her 200-hour YTT certification. We caught up with her to talk about dating and YTT in the time of COVID-19, and how to kick a smartphone addiction or not.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Feb. 4, 2021
It’s rare for a self-help book to crack our list of recommended titles. But Ron Lieber’s guide to the financial side of higher education, “The Price You Pay for College,” made the cut for a couple of reasons. First, on the face of it, it’s an impressively thorough and genuinely useful manual for people staring up the sheer cliff of college tuition payments. (I am one.) Second, and more relevant for an audience of general readers, it also contains an implicit analysis and critique of higher education as a system, by acknowledging the inequities that exist at every level from recruitment to admissions to financial aid. It’s a how-to book that will also make you think, “But why?”
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Has going through lockdown with your significant other changed the way you look at them? Did their work-from-home schedule lead you to discover the approximately 72,000 unread work emails they’re sitting on? Are you a little disgusted that they have the audacity to put on actual pants every day while you’re strictly wearing sweatpants?
You’re not alone. This pandemic has the members of pretty much every cohabitating couple discovering some unnerving things about each other. Below, 12 comedians (or otherwise funny people) share the weirdest things they learned about their partners in 2020.
My boyfriend is firmly anti-snack.