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Absolutely did not mean to fall off line the last few days. Was intending to...

I couldn’t help, scrolling through this morning’s lessons, but circle back to that Atlantic article...

As an act of supreme marital kindness, I am indulging my husband’s particular obsession and...

I am trying to finish that thing I’ve been working on forever and really need...

I might have, instead of doing the laundry or something, gone down the rabbit hole...

It’s a gray and sultry Monday morning and so we got up to complain on...

‘We have religion,’ the old saying goes, ‘you have magic.’ Or superstition, if you prefer....

I’m about to run out the door into the day, but this was a long...

This is pretty great. If you were thinking about writing a highbrow literary review of...

Well, it’s raining, and some person on twitter posted this spectacularly novel advice, hashtag Tuesday...

Good Morning—or rather, Good Afternoon. I had to rush off to the eye doctor this...

I happened, even in the busiest of weeks, to come across a preacher who made...

I’ve been studiously drowning out the sounds of my family for the last year with...

[I survived, but it was exhausting.] This is a brilliant thread. Someone got on the...

I don’t really have any hobbies. I don’t do any crafting and I’m not overburdened...

Here I am, awake and everything on a Monday morning. It’s pretty discouraging. Wish I...

A friend, intent on pressing all my buttons, brought this curious advice to my attention....

One I was so so honored to be on Alisa Childers’ very cool podcast this week...

The First Thing I read this morning that the thing I linked yesterday about the...

This over at the Guardian is good, especially the ending, In contrast, the logic of...

Yesterday a child asked me how many hours are in a year, and because school...

It’s a bright, very chilly summer/autumn morning—the cold wind sweeping in and waking us from...

A week ago, or who even knows, Matt interrupted our evening studies by turning on...

The First Thing  Today is Ascension Day, if you were anxiously waiting. I wrote this...

I’m going to take the opportunity of having written something somewhere else (see below), to...

Before the shocking headline yesterday about MLK, I had been wandering around all weekend enumerating...

A bright sunny happy Memorial Day to you all. We arose from the stupor of...

This is so good—and one of several reasons I’ve been trying to expunge from my...

Is it really Friday? One Didn’t mean to neglect the podcast on Monday. Going into...

This is a long, needlessly political, a little bit rambling, at points incoherent, but nevertheless...