Mitch McConnell’s absence complicates Trump’s defense spending push amid Iran war
The absence of two key Senate Republicans has complicated the Trump administration’s ambitions to pass budget appropriations and increase defense ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Tag: absence
I grew up in the 1990s and the thing nobody warned me about is that the resilience my generation was praised for was just the absence of anyone asking how we were — and the adults who admire us now for being “low maintenance” don’t realize they’re describing the exact training that made it almost impossible for us to ask for help in our thirties.
By the mid-1990s, somewhere between half and two-thirds of American kids in elementary and middle school were spending part of ...
I stopped offering my opinion in family group chats six months ago, no commentary, no reactions, no jumping in to smooth things over, just to see who would notice my absence, and the silence taught me something I had been working hard not to know for about twenty years
Silence inside a family is not the absence of information. It is the information. Most of what you need to ...
I’m in my 30s and I recently realized that every relationship I called easy was actually just a relationship where I did all the adjusting. Easy never meant compatible. It meant I had become so skilled at reshaping myself that friction disappeared, and I mistook the absence of friction for the presence of love.
For most of my twenties and into my early thirties, I heard the same compliment repeatedly from partners and friends—that ...
People who turned out genuinely kind despite a tough childhood didn’t learn kindness — they absorbed its absence so completely that its presence became the one thing they couldn’t withhold from anyone who needed it, not as a decision, but as the only response available to a person formed the way they were formed
I’ve noticed something about the kindest people I know. Almost none of them had it easy growing up. That might ...
I spent 38 years looking forward to retirement and 38 days realizing I’d been looking forward to the wrong thing—because the life I’d imagined was built entirely around the absence of work, and nobody told me that absence isn’t a life
Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. For thirty-eight years, I knew exactly what my mornings looked like. Up ...
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