Jennifer Senior

Yes.

There's a great book, um, written by a woman named Jennifer Senior called, I think, All Joy and No Fun.

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Justice Antonin Scalia, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, had this great line back during the four years.

He gave an interview to Jennifer Senior of New York Magazine.

He said back during the four years, Congress was eating us alive.

He was an employee of the Justice Department in the White House at the time.

You know, like, when I flash to myself, sometimes I'm 10 and a half, and sometimes I'm 15, and sometimes I'm 42, and, but these, these identities that, like, live inside of me like, uh, nesting dolls- It's a quest- it's the second question on the Oldster Questionnaire, and almost everyone acknowledges having at least one additional internal age, and it's a studied phenomenon it turns out.

And, uh, Jennifer Senior wrote an article about it for The Atlantic and interviewed me for it.

And, um, yeah, I, uh, so I, here I was...

This is like, you know, very validating for me, this thing where I have a curiosity about something, something is nagging at me, and I'm a little reluctant to share it with people, but when I do, I find out I'm not the only one.

And I thought, "Am I crazy?" And then I've learned that it's almost everyone, and not only that, The Atlantic did a piece on this experience.

It was an article by Jennifer Senior, and she interviewed me for it.

She had posted on Twitter saying, "Does anybody else feel like they have a different age in their head about how they, who they are than they, than their chronological age? Is it just me?" And I said, "Not only is it not just you, it's a question on the Oldster questionnaire." So then she interviewed me, and she linked to Oldster, which was great.

Um, brought me a lot of new subscribers.

Parenting is the obvious association here.

Jennifer Senior wrote a book about being a parent, and the title was All Joy and No Fun.

If you measure a parent's happiness level while they're doing childcare, it's not that high.

In one famous study, childcare made people about as happy as housework.

And it's called What Bobby McVean Left Behind.

And it's done, the author is Jennifer Senior.

It did win the Pulitzer Prize in 2022.

And I find that you can read the article.