The Vanities of Age

Want to grow old gracefully? Less striving, more love.

What Old Dogs Know

Do these people not know that now is now is now is NOW?

Living at Odds With One’s Country

How do we stay plugged into a society that is fast losing any moral compass—and keep our own?

A Queasy Selling of the Family Heirlooms

I am not sure which would appall my mother more: “dip chiller” to name her receptacle for delicate, extravagant shrimp, or me asking an artificial intelligence to remind me what she taught me.

Hire Vitrivius to Do Your Interior Design

Cicero: “An enormous house is often a discredit to the owner, if there is an emptiness about the place.”

Do You Have to Like the Main Character?

When I defended likability, I sounded, even to my own ears, naïve.

Dare We Say It? The Bible Is a Messy Book

Somehow I had come to think of the Bible as stuck together from the start, a sacred, ordained book on which we speak our oaths...

Locked Out

For eighteen years, I have been returning home, sliding that brass key into the lock, and stepping into comfort. Now I tense before I even try.

The Precarious Joy of Eating Lunch

On Saturdays, my mom and I went shopping, and around three in the afternoon, I would ask, in a small plaintive voice, “Mom, did we have lunch today?”

AI’s Ethics Are Evolving…into Satanic Blood Rituals

Aw, you humans have been scared of tech forever, the AI says....

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