Note: Paid supporters of my newsletter receive additional, monthly essays as a small thank-you for their support, and I’ve decided to open up this month’s essay to everyone, as it’s relevant to the release of my new book. Whether we’re asking someone…
I’ve been writing and publishing books professionally since 2010. A lot has changed in the publishing world since I started sharing my work and authoring at a level that allowed me to earn an income from my efforts. Waves of…
Note: Today’s essay is an excerpt from my upcoming book, How To Turn 39, which is about aging and how we might do it better. HTT39 is for folks of all ages, not just elder millennials like myself, and is premised on…
Note: This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, How To Turn 39, which is about aging and how we might do it better, and which will officially be available for pre-sale in just under a week (my 39th birthday is the…
Every time I finish a book (or bring some other major effort to a close) I find myself with what feels like an overwhelming volume of empty space on my calendar and in my life. It’s a bit like if…
It’s vital, I think, to give ourselves space, time, and energy to process difficult moments, to cope with cumbersome realities, and to undertake the (at times ponderous) process of healing, rebuilding, and accepting. That said, I also think it’s possible…
There’s a quartet of phrases that I use a lot, but which I don’t hear as often as I believe their usefulness justifies. The first is “I’m open to it.” I most frequently use this phrase when faced with information…
Even a week after returning home from a family visit to Seattle, several of the songs my baby nephew loves are still stuck in my head. Many of these songs (Baby Shark, classics by Raffi, those featured on Cocomelon) are…
I’ve been using a little grammar app while editing my new book so that I have a visual sense of what I’m doing wrong (according to someone else’s standards) as I trim, delete, rearrange, and rewrite—my words passive aggressively underlined,…
The Illusion of Explanatory Depth, sometimes called the Bicycle Problem, refers to our tendency to assume we know more about something than we actually do. That second monicker is derived from an example commonly used to illustrate this bias: most…