I'll never be a father. But when my friends and family members had children, I learned a new way of showing up for others.
I'm never having children. It's a decision I made at a very young age and have never wavered from. There are a number of things I can point to in my childhood that led me to this decision. The town I lived in when I was young had the highest teenage pregnancy rate per capita in the entire state, which means I grew up doing my damndest to avoid procreating. My own parents were married when they had me, just to different people, meaning that my mere existence definitely complicated things for both of them. The list goes on. The end result is that I'm not having kids, no matter how many people tell me, "Oh, you just wait. You'll be a father soon." Yet during the pandemic, I felt a new responsibility to show up as support to family members and friends with children. |
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Lululemon's Surge shorts will change your workout routine—and your whole summer wardrobe. |
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For a guy who's worked as long as Taylor Kitsch—that'd be two decades—you'll find relatively few interviews with him on the internet. Up until a few months ago, he didn't even have someone handling press for him. "We're fighting for Playgirl," Kitsch, forty-one, jokes when I ask what we should expect from his new publicist. "Right now, it's between me and twenty other guys." Instead, he has chugged along in the Hollywood game by flat out refusing to play it. But he's got some big projects coming—The Terminal List on Amazon, out now; Painkiller on Netflix, later—so here we are in the restaurant of Casa del Mar hotel in Santa Monica looking at pictures of wolves, which make up what feels like a sizable portion of his iPhone photo library. |
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'Tis the season for shopping gifts on major sale, courtesy of Amazon. |
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Today, we only come to you with good news. (Refreshing, right?) You'll have to wait for later in the week for Esquire's review, but rest assured, we dug the newest Marvel Cinematic Universe entry, Thor: Love and Thunder. Not only that, but the latest and (arguably!) greatest Thor adventure sports a shockingly low barrier to entry. Meaning, opposed to a bloated MCU outing like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, you can probably get away with buying a ticket for that one family member who doesn't know what the heck an Infinity Stone is. That said, there are a few Thor-centric superhero outings that can only add to your Love and Thunder experience. In celebration of the God of Thunder's grand return, here's what to watch before you see Thor: Love and Thunder. |
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