Rerun: Revisiting "No"
My favorite election movie, four years later
There is always a future
Lessons from the apocalypse
A spooky season read
Yesterday was Day of the Dead, so I’ve been in the mood for art featuring skeletons, ancestors, and just a touch of the unexplained. Unfortunately I have...
On (not) understanding the subconscious
How I Finished My Book, Part 4 and Last
Meal planning for writers
How I Finished My Book, Part 3
Why I spend every afternoon lying on the floor
How I Finished My Book, Part 2
The schedule that supercharged my productivity
Part 1 of the How I Finished My Book series
Delivery and acceptance
I finally wrote a good book
An instant classic
On feuds and dinosaurs
Three writing tips
Hard-won lessons from an almost final manuscript
Rerun: The spell
Hello! It has, once again, been a while. This time my long break has a happy reason behind it: I am ~one month away from being done with my book! Well, you...
The bros are not ok
We need to talk about steroids
Black and white, revisited
Two years ago, I wrote about grayscaling my phone as a way of nudging myself to spend less time on it: For me, it’s not exactly that grayscaling makes my...
A book to make you love reading again
I’ve read less this year than any other time in my life. Reading breaks come for us all, eventually—illness, overwork, overcommitment, bad sleep, the abrupt...
My favorite recipe
I’ve gone through a lot of kitchen phases over the last four years. There was the “are you gonna meal plan, or are you gonna die?” phase, the residual...
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On (not) watching Bridgerton
And a defense of embroidery
Movies for brain fog
In addition to the vagus nerve exercises, the other activity that routinely eases my brain fog is watching movies. At home in soft pants, in the theater...
In which I become a wellness influencer
I recently experienced yet another round of Weird COVID, complete with the brain fog and fatigue I’ve felt after every infection. I was asymptomatic again,...
Anthropology is haunted
When I finished my feature about the Morton Collection in 2021, I needed a long break from writing about what I called “the ghosts in the museum”—the bones...
On medical mysteries
As previously discussed, I’m terrible at anticipating near-future trends. But allow me one cultural prediction at the beginning of this still young year: The...
