literature

June 21st, 2026

I finished Tove Jansson's The Summer Book on this summer solstice. It's about a grandmother and her granddaughter spending the summer togeth...

June 11th, 2026

Tonight, I finished Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince ! I'd never read it before. It touched my heart so much. I think it was the...

June 9th, 2026

"We Will Not Be Lovers" by The Waterboys Unrequited love is about hunger. It's about what we want and can't have, what seduces and tantalize...

May 22nd, 2026

"Digital Detox with Rilke" by Adam Walker "Now, our ability to appreciate moments of quietude and contemplation must be strengthened. Right ...

May 17th, 2026

Tonight, I started reading Nadia Anjuman's Smoke Drifts . Anjuman was a gifted Afghan poet who wrote under terrible persecution and confinem...

May 11th, 2026

I'm at the stage of life when kitchen appliances excite me! I just got my first rice cooker. I'm using it to make not only rice but also egg...

May 3rd, 2026

"I used to tell my students: don't settle for happiness. It's just not good enough. Life has to be about something more than whether you fee...

April 28th, 2026

Sometimes, you have to drink your iced coffee from a cute bear jar you got off Tiktok shop. This bear jar might be the one bright spot in yo...

April 18th, 2026

"The word "devotion," as I am using it, need not refer to the embodiment of a specific religious form. Rather, it is the opening or the inte...