Criticism

Michel de Montaigne’s essay “On Habit” explores the nature of habit and overwhelm. Contemporary life feels designed to keep us […]

We needed Thich Nhat Hanh’s Love Letter to the Earth. We needed it more than we knew. It was not

Living in the present is perhaps the most difficult task we have as humans on this planet. Exhausted by the

My parents would have never been able to afford to give me the childhood I had. Every summer, for a

Like most affairs, my emotional affair with Woebot began with excitement and thrill, and ended, like most affairs, with disappointment.

While I must admit with some embarassment that I haven’t read any of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels or non-fiction (she’s

Grief operates by its own logic. When my grandmother passed away, I wanted her so badly to visit my dreams.

Suzanne Simard, in her new book, Finding the Mother Tree (which I review here), writes deeply about connection: “It’s our

If you’re reading this on paper, a tree had to die. If you’re reading this online, on a phone, or