I'm having a difficult time at the moment and am so grateful to Meghan for the light-hearted entertainment she provides. I couldn't help but giggle at:
[Of herself as a child] “I was such a little nerd,” she says. “My entire identity was wrapped up in being the smart one."
Rolling out two friends to tell us that we're all wrong, Meghan is a lovely person. Not only that, her friends learn from her and implement her advice. She's tried this exact over-the-top tactic before and it doesn't work.
The little digs at her mum (like how she parents differently and her mum wasn't a 'regular cook'. Knowing that you have a reputation for not getting on with family, how hard would it be to avoid this?!
[Feeling philosophical about the word 'play']: “I love being able to do both," Meghan says, “to play in the sandbox with my kids and to play in the front row at a show."
[On her dislike of things that have been 'overly realized']: "And sometimes I think the stress that people put on moments … they are so consumed in them that you lose the fun of why you are doing something.” [Is anyone reminded of her having a camera set up to watch her cheering a baseball team at home?]
As well as the 'bold love' and the '11-year-old girls are so relatable because I was once 11' and the 'authenticity' and the 'self-actualization through work' and the 'voice' and the 'narrative'. Just all so predictably funny.
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OTOH, I raised my eyebrows at this:
“There’s not a day that goes by that she hasn’t checked in or I haven’t checked in,” Zajfen says. --- Just before that, it says they had fallen out of contact but Meghan got in touch when her (Zajfen's) son sadly died. That was a genuinely nice thing to do but I can't help feeling daily contact ever since is a bit...much. It reminded me of the regular contact she had with a sick employee. She presents it as a kindness (on her part) but the person on the receiving end...
In fairness to her: she is not quoted as talking directly about the washing-up liquid story. The journalist briefly referenced it but we don't know that Meghan said anything about it during this interview.
I like her look in many of the pictures even if I've seen better photos of her.