Time and What You Do With It
New experiences imbue our time with an intensity that makes a few hours feel like a long stretch of days. A different […]
Imagine If You Can: Motherhood Without Instagram
There’s a foolproof way as a woman to ensure that you get rest when it is required for physical healing. There’s a […]
Is it “puttering” that makes a house a home?
Many a homemaker has despaired of ever living in a place of beauty. There is always something to be cleaned, something to […]
Propagating Success
Someone recently asked if I was actually a plant person or if I just pretended for my blog. An interesting query. Plants […]
From Shipping Container to Landfill: The Sad Story of Many Christmas Presents
For the curmudgeon in us, there was plenty to kvetch about this Christmas. The mysterious powers that be in the regulation of […]
Plenty of Life Left to Live: Accomplishment in Adulthood
It’s remarkable how quickly men can settle into a mid-life crisis. Like Julius Caesar weeping at the foot of the statue of […]
Laura Shapiro’s “What She Ate” and What it Means that Hitler was a Vegetarian
After trawling the library offerings for the works of Barbara Pym, I came across a wonderful book of food history: Laura Shapiro’s […]
Women in Combat: So Equal It Hurts
The presupposition of much of our public discourse is that radical and absolute equality between the sexes is not only possible but, […]
Venting: The Vice of Our Current Age and Finding an Alternative to Counseling
Most people hold an oddly mechanistic view of our emotions and the biological chemicals at play when we experience them. A new […]
When Raising Kids, Sometimes Less Really is More
Writing at the Federalist recently, I offered some thoughts on a study from earlier this year on the rise of mental disorders […]