A Christmas Present
A lovely video by Molly McIntyre
When We Are Older This Will All Make Sense and It Will Be Too Late
Sibyl, I have spent a significant amount of time pursuing one career direction, and now I am unsure if that is the right way for me. This is not unusual, but I am unsure how to decide on a new direction. Early 30′s still feels too old to just try out some other career paths. [...]
What Are You Reading (offline, that is)?
Lauren Kodiak is a Connecticut native living in Portland, Oregon with her boyfriend and her slightly overweight cat. She has a master’s in Educational Policy, Foundations and Administration, but still doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. She loves to spend hours in the kitchen, practice yoga and eat ice cream [...]
Home
Faded ticket stubs, dried rose petals folded inside notes of high school love, gleeful photos of attempting to blow out candles on childhood birthday cakes, and journals describing firsts—the first time away from home, the first crush, the first heartbreak, and the first encounter with grief. A whole life, a full life, is contained in [...]
Would you like that book in print or pixels?
Armed with a shiny new gift card, I set about fulfilling my reading wish list this week. There was only one problem. For each title, I hovered over the “add to cart” button, wavering unsteadily between two options: print or ebook. In the past, the print vs. digital decision has always been an obvious one. [...]
Some Thoughts on Bangladesh
Bangladesh: cyclones, floods, poverty, George Harrison sang a song about it. Maybe if you’re a little older than me you remember news reports from the seventies about the liberation war. More recently perhaps the name conjures thoughts of a Nobel Prize and micro credit. None of which has anything to do with everyday life, with [...]
Lessons from a New Year…
Dear Clara, One year rolls out, and a new one rolls in . . . I love the fresh feeling of possibility that the New Year brings, the crispness of winter, and the sense that there is a blank canvas of achievements just waiting for us. Here is always what I think about for the [...]
The F Words: Miriam Blocker
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Miriam. You might have noticed that Miriam and I share a last name; she’s married, you see, to my little brother, and is a seriously amazing lady. She studied at the University of Edinburgh, where she managed a theater over the summers (where, it happens, she met said little brother), then [...]
