“As he would later tell me, running was the rare sport where you mostly competed against yourself. You could learn without having to lose.”
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Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
What Brings True Happiness: the Booze or the Bonding?
“But there’s nothing wrong with a nudge toward examining the difference between what makes us happy and what is merely habitual.”
Posted inNonfiction
A Tall Tree Reading List
Let’s go down to the woods today … with a reading list all about trees.
Posted inBlog Post, Commentary, Longreads News
Curation: The Best Reading, Hand-Picked, For You
Great writing moves us. It makes us feel good. It fills us with potential. Doesn’t everyone want to feel good and optimistic? Is this a mission you can get behind?
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List
Cryin’, Dyin’, or Goin’ Somewhere: A Country Music Reading List
Although the sound of the music has changed, country’s themes have endured.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Teaching My Daughter that Love is Love
Vanessa Mártir learns about homophobia as a child but grows up to raise her daughter while in a happy, same-sex relationship.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Feature, Story
Sleeping with Amazon
Sometimes it’s not who you work with, but who you work for.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
Fear of Suffering Alone
After separating from her husband and entering quarantine, Anne Liu Kellor faces her ongoing desire for a partner and the necessity of loving herself.
Posted inHighlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes
Vivian Gornick on ‘Political Activism as a Path Toward a Coherent Self’
“But writing itself, living a life defined by work and intellect rather than love or marriage, became her primary feminist commitment.”
