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“I think of Tomm every time the sunlight shines on R’s face. He is not Tomm’s replacement and Tomm is not his shadow. My son has added to the pile of glimmers that make me remember my brother.” Author Maria Zorn and I share one thing in common: We both lost our brothers unexpectedly. Grief […]
In this week’s Top 5 we have lessons from apartheid, clever Claude, feeling bodies anew, the power of wax, and free mining.
As a teenager, I met a stranger who changed the course of my life. Twenty years later, I went looking for him.
The space of the essay does have edges, but the edges are a little bit ragged and open.
“Thanks to Dyson, I now spend way too much time thinking about microscopic crap that cloaks my body as I sleep.”
A brother lost, a son born, and the strange arithmetic of love.
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“In a nearly four-hour interview, the legendary singer goes deep on longevity, Kamala Harris, why Fleetwood Mac are finished, and much more.”
“When most of us build or buy a home, we carefully appraise the neighborhood. In Malibu the neighborhood is fire. Fire that revisits the coastal mountains several times a decade. In the past sixty years, ten of these frequent events have turned into all-consuming firestorms.” Welcome to 2025, friends. Peter here. As it does all too often, […]
