For most of my adult life, I treated my bank balance the way some people treat a dentist appointment. I knew it existed, I knew that ignoring it would eventually cost me, and I...
Somewhere in my late twenties, I noticed that my friendships had started to run on inertia. The people I considered closest were mostly people I had met years earlier, through school or a first...
I did not become interested in owning fewer things because of a documentary or a tidy book with a calming cover. I became interested because I moved apartments and had to carry every object...
I resisted walking as exercise for years because it seemed too mild to count. In my head, effort had to hurt to matter, and a walk was what you did when you were too...