Two people together only a few months approach their first Christmas, one of them raised in a sombre religious household that rose early and kept everything modest, and she uses that invented couple to show how expectations get built long before anybody says a word about them. It is the clearest thing she wrote about disappointment.
Her other long piece concerns what happens to the people around you once you start examining your own behaviour. They react angrily, she argues, because your taking responsibility puts them in the position of having to look at themselves, and the support you expected simply does not arrive.
The health posts are reprinted and firmly alternative: one particular honey against resistant infections, what gets sprayed onto supermarket fruit, and a distrust of pharmaceutical companies stated in the plainest possible terms.
Ten posts, most of them long. Read the expectations one, which stands entirely on its own.