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Since I haven't done this in a couple of years, a reminder: I love to get pitches for the @globeandmail Saturday Opinion section. We publish everything from 750-word op-eds to 7500-word reported essays. Here's some recent work to give you a sense of what I'm looking for:
@TheJosephRosen on how the pandemic brought him closer to his neighbours: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-physical-distancing-is-designed-to-keep-us-apart-but-it-has-brought/
@evaholland on missing her mother and the importance of friends: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-after-i-lost-my-mother-i-turned-to-my-friends-now-during-the/
@saxdavid on why entrepreneurship has always been about rebirth: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-coronavirus-has-decimated-small-business-but-entrepreneurship-has/
@bleszcz on the agony and ecstasy of endless screen time: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-missing-touch-the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-endless-screen-time/
@vancouverharris on why you are NOT wasting your time in isolation: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-you-arent-wasting-your-self-isolation-you-are-engaged-in-one-of-the/
@MargaretAtwood on how growing up in "Quarantineland" prepared her for the pandemic: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-growing-up-in-quarantineland-childhood-nightmares-in-the-age-of-germs/
@olgakhazan on why it's so tough to change our ways: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-new-norm-why-it-feels-impossible-to-change-our-ways-even-during/
@bschillace on grief in the time of the coronavirus: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-grief-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-how-will-the-way-we-mourn-change/
@AdrianKLee says seize the bidet: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-forget-toilet-paper-hoarding-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-lets-seize/
And, a few from the before-time...
@tweetertation on why we can't just ban men: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-ban-men-if-only-it-were-that-easy/
@TanyaTalaga says reconciliation can't be dead if it never really existed: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-reconciliation-isnt-dead-it-never-truly-existed/
@FleerackersA on getting vaccinated as an adult: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-my-parents-were-against-vaccines-getting-immunized-as-an-adult/
@Melissa_Stasiuk on why everyone deserves access to IVF: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-ivf-was-my-last-hope-to-have-a-baby-all-canadians-deserve-that-hope/
@davidpleonard on looking to his late wife for guidance: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-my-wife-died-nine-months-ago-in-grief-i-look-to-her-for-guidance/
@lethal_heroine on her mother's life, and why she wished she could be a part of it: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-abraham-my-mother-found-a-life-beyond-the-gender-binary-i-wish-i/
