Four Simple Steps to Getting Fit
When you reach a certain age, you start to resemble what you eat—and that’s bad news for people like me,
Family
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High Anxiety & Happiness
Herewith, we present a new essay from our Soul Shelter First-Person Essay Award submission pool. We think you’ll find Seattle
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On Moderation
“A thing is sometimes added to by being diminished and diminished by being added to.” — Tao Te Ching (XLII; 96)
Earlier
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Let Us Begin
On a mild evening recently, I stood in the cooling air holding my week-old child in my arms, and watched
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You’ve Got to Jump
“I can’t. I’m scared.”
Skyler Dunn, three years older and infinitely wiser, looked at me with a kind smile as I
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Redefining Rejection
Rejection is a bothersome word. When one’s ideas or efforts are rejected, it can be hard to take it as
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Time to Give In, Time to Give Up
Sometimes the uncontrollable is just what we need
On a Sunday morning late last year I padded downstairs to the blogatorium,
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The Value of Travel — One Household’s Mild Manifesto
“We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where
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Measures of Success
A major job hazard in my line of work as a novelist is an occasional looming sense of futility. Futility
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Happiness is Turning Off the Computer
— A computer that sleeps all weekend is a tiny bit of happiness —
Some months ago I watched an intriguing
