I recently read Marie Kondo’s now-classic The Life Changing Magic of Tyding Up. Underlying the advice about how to fold your clothes and the batty-seeming suggestion to talk to your stuff was a solid truth: we can choose our lives, but unless we decide to do so deliberately, we will not— and we will often not... Continue Reading →
Happiness: When Thinking Fast Steers Us Wrong
I read a lot of books last year— among them The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis, which led me to Thinking Fast and Slow, by the behavioral psychologist Daniel Kahneman. In Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman proposes that the “fast” system of thinking, or system 1, is the efficient and rapid way of processing information... Continue Reading →
dealing with death.
In Tucson each November, there is an event called the All Souls’ Procession. It’s a relative of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos, but it’s a distinct and unique experience. People come together and walk through the city with floats, puppets, photos, banners. They dance, chant, drum. They paint their faces and wear... Continue Reading →
A Meditation on Returning to Running
So, I’m back to running. I’m building back up slowly, but I’ve been able to get out and run almost every day that I’ve really wanted to. I had a few times where I’ve run for less time than I planned because my foot didn’t feel right, but those days have been few and far... Continue Reading →
COOKBOOK REVIEWS!
I love a good cookbook. Especially one with lots of food-porn caliber photography. Food blogs are great (and i maintain an ever-growing Evernote notebook full of recipes clipped from blogs), but there’s something about having pages to turn and ruin with splatters that is just so appealing. Even though I don’t categorize myself strictly as... Continue Reading →
Diet books, biohacking, n=1, and other sticky situations
I was at bookman’s the other day— a local institution/giant used bookstore. I was browsing in the health section (shocker!), and I was struck again by just how many books there are that offer “THE SOLUTION”. To anything. Everything. Drop the weight, get more energy, balance your hormones, look 10 years younger. Whatever. If I... Continue Reading →
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