I see people I’ve known for decades throw all the levers to full reverse in an effort to send their lives in some radically different direction—with their families, with their careers, with anything they can change (or think they can change). (I’d actually dearly love to know what one is thinking, but she and I … Read more
That’s as complicated as my New Year’s resolution is this year. I’m going to set the cruise at 72 instead of 77 on the interstate. I’m going to stop looking at my finances through a lens of “if I’d only done x ten years ago…” I’m going to concentrate on a generally good dietary and … Read more
Paula Poundstone had a great bit about naps. Basically she said they were an indicator of adulthood. When you wanted one instead of resented one, you were a grown-up. I’ll buy that. I remember my mandated naps from childhood. I went to sleep maybe once every fifteen or twenty naps. Most of the time I … Read more