March reading
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives by Jeffrey E. Garten Globalization is nothing new. Garten points out that it began 60,000…
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Books
Writing as metaphor
This is an excerpt from In Other Words, by Jhumpa Lahiri’s linguistic autobiography: Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To…
February romance reading
I got the idea that February should be a break in the heavy nonfiction I’ve been reading lately. I decided to only read quick reads that…
January reading report
January – check! I’ve been trying to simplify a little and have been de-owning things. Now I must work on the “doing too much.” I counted…
Essentialism and the pursuit of less
Exactly how do you pursue less? The underlying premise of essentialism is that you just can’t fit it all in. At some point you’ve got to…
It’s like I forgot how to read!
December, where did you go? It’s unusual to have read only 4 books in a month, yet I can’t remember doing anything else before falling asleep…