The Myth of Quality Time
In his New York Times column, Frank Bruni tells us why scheduling snippets of time together…
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I’m Too Old For This
Excellent op-ed about aging at the New York Times! I’m Too Old For This, by Dominique Browning. There is a lot that is annoying, and even terrible, about aging. The creakiness of the body; the drifting of the memory; the reprising of personal history ad nauseam, with only yourself to listen....
Café Window
They sat at a small table mid-way into the café, four people around a table really only big enough for two. Glynna looked around at Jason and Jason’s parents, Laura and Ken. Their faces were in shadows in the dark café. It made her uncomfortable to not be able...
What’s wrong with navel-gazing anyway?
Some people use the accusation of “gazing at your own navel” to dismiss a self-exploratory mental exercise as useless, self-indulgent, narcissistic, or worse, primitive. Something an ape might do. But an ape doesn’t ruminate as we do, not about its navel or anything else, and so I reject that characterization. [Read More]