One of my favorite writers, Taylor Lorenz, has decided that 2019 is the year she’s giving up on email. “In 2019, I suggest you let it all go. There is simply no way for anyone with a full-time job and multiple inboxes to keep up with the current email climate. Even after deleting and sorting … [Read more…]
So I tried bullet journaling. I promised myself I would give it a go for a month. Two days into that month, I wanted to torch the thing. I fantasized about putting it in the fire pit in the back yard. I was very glad September only has 30 days and not 31. In theory, … [Read more…]
I’ve decided to switch to a bullet journal. Anyone who spends time around me knows how attached to my phone I am. It’s convenient, it’s easy and it’s super useful to have what you need in one place. Yet somehow, I have ended up with some ungodly number of apps for each thing. A calendar, … [Read more…]
Here’s some hubris for you. I’ve never had a work of fiction published but I’m going to go ahead and trash an actual, award-winning no less, author. Irish writer Colum McCann wrote a column for the Guardian recently on tips for aspiring writers and, well, they aren’t great. He opens his essay, unironically, with a … [Read more…]
I went to a funeral yesterday. A regular at the bar I go to passed away. He was an older guy, nearly 70, and, like me, living in a country not his own. The funeral was organized by some other regulars. From a distance, an old man dying alone whose funeral was attended only by … [Read more…]
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