I just finished Cal Newport’s new book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Although I do have some quibbles with it, and would dearly love to ... Read more
Up for today: a few of the questions I can’t stop thinking about. A few weeks ago in the MMD Book Club, we chatted with Kelly Corrigan about her memoir ... Read more
Readers, I’m just back from a quick trip to Memphis (for the second time ever) and Oxford, Mississippi (for the first). I’d always wanted to see Oxford for myself, but ... Read more
We have a Modern Mrs Darcy tradition right around the corner and I am ready for it. I’ve always had an uneasy relationship with winter. This year wasn’t so bad, ... Read more
I recently had the pleasure of re-reading Eleanor Roosevelt’s memoir-of-sorts You Learn By Living. She wrote it in 1960, when she was 76 years old. It feels a bit dated ... Read more
I’m on book tour for I’d Rather Be Reading right now, an experience which is renowned by authors as being tons of fun and tons of exhausting. Before I left, I consciously ... Read more
This year I’ve been going to work out at six o’clock in the morning, a time I simultaneously love and struggle with. Love, because it feels great to have a ... Read more
Earlier this summer, my family joined the local rock climbing gym. Two of my kids were especially interested, and it’s one of those rare remaining places where a “family membership” ... Read more
Inspired by my recent What Should I Read Next? episode with Enneagram expert Ian Morgan Cron, today I’m combining two of my favorite things: reading and personality theory. In that ... Read more
This morning my alarm went off in what felt like the actual middle of the night. It wasn’t; it was 5:20. But it hurt. In my dreams, I’d been in ... Read more
