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A question for women 12 Aug 2013 | 08:08 am
In the opening months of 2000, NBC Universal launched Oxygen, a new cable channel aimed at women. At the time, it aired a lot of syndicated reruns of television shows with female leads, such as Kate &...
On Getting Good at Being Good 5 Aug 2013 | 04:48 pm
It’s really not very good. Your payday ritual of having eat-in pizza and a beer before you leave downtown after work suddenly feels like it’s no longer worth the nineteen dollars, or even the indigest...
Other people see your problems more clearly than you do 29 Jul 2013 | 08:15 am
I’ve been writing down my thoughts my whole life, although they were never very organized until recently. Often I’d write down an epiphany I had, in the middle of my science notebook or in the margins...
How to change your mind 15 Jul 2013 | 04:56 pm
Just before diving into East of Eden, Lily absorbed a novel of almost the opposite kind — short, contemporary, overstated — unclassic in every way. She really liked it and wanted me to read it. Unlik...
The sun is setting at all times 8 Jul 2013 | 08:39 am
During the summer I try to steer my day so that when the sun sets, I’m outside, in a place where there’s nothing blocking the view. Sunsets are always worthwhile. They’re also always fleeting. During...
5 steps to stop worrying what people think of you 24 Jun 2013 | 08:15 am
On my seventh night in New York City I ended up, almost accidentally, living out a fantasy of mine — mingling with writers and photographers, in an expensive Upper West Side apartment with floor-to-ce...
What do you do now that you should have always done? 17 Jun 2013 | 08:51 am
About six months after I got my first guitar, I had reached a stage where I knew a lot of chords and I could play recognizable bits of songs, but I couldn’t play even the simplest song (Wild Thing?) w...
What do you do now that you should have always done? 17 Jun 2013 | 08:51 am
About six months after I got my first guitar, I had reached a stage where I knew a lot of chords and I could play recognizable bits of songs, but I couldn’t play even the simplest song (Wild Thing?) w...
Why the minimalists do what they do 3 Jun 2013 | 08:42 am
I was 31 when I figured out breakfast, and after that life’s overall difficulty level declined a bit. Every month I buy a bag of bulk steel-cut oats, a bag of trail mix and a six-pound bag of Royal G...
Why the minimalists do what they do 3 Jun 2013 | 08:42 am
I was 31 when I figured out breakfast, and after that life’s overall difficulty level declined a bit. Every month I buy a bag of bulk steel-cut oats, a bag of trail mix and a six-pound bag of Royal Ga...
