I’m starting the new year with this question in mind. Oliver Burkeman, in Meditations for Mortals, suggests it as an approach to just about everything. Hear him out! It’s genius. “Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.” -Attributed…
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When the world closed down, Chloe Dalton moved from London to the English countryside. Her career in foreign policy and politics continued remotely, but it all seemed a lot less real than what was happening in her garden and in…
I’m letting go. My flower beds, a bit unruly to begin with, have heard the call of the wild. In my absence, they welcomed their friends the weeds. They’re all having a very big time and I don’t have the…
My friend Caroline and I took a field trip to the Donelson branch of the Nashville Public Library, newly renovated. The Dollar Tree was practically next door, along with several unremarkable strip malls. The Library itself took our breath away…
I am not a hearty traveler. “If you were a farm animal, you would have been put down,” quipped my husband. Between the food poisoning and the vertigo, the garden variety infections and anxiety, I’d have to agree. Despite distressing…