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Once upon a time, I worked at a law firm in Boston, in the financial district. I went into the law firm in the morning, and I came out in the morning, usually about 2 a.m. When I came out, … Continue reading →

Yesterday, after I posted my blog post, I started to worry. Did it really have anything to do with writing? Because I had promised myself, and promised you, that this blog would be about writing. And was it too personal? … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I had the following conversation. Friend: I’d like to go to Nepal. Me: Let’s go trekking in Nepal! That night I thought, could I actually go trekking in Nepal? After all, I do have a sort of cat-like appreciation … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I received an email from Duncan Long with the following portrait attached. Duncan told me that he had seen my blog post on Resolutions and had decided to take the first picture I posted as his daily exercise. And … Continue reading →

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. They don’t seem particularly useful. If there’s something I should be doing that I’m not already doing, the solution isn’t to make a resolution, but to figure out why. When we don’t do something … Continue reading →

I decided to start anew – to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what … Continue reading →

Yesterday night, I worked on my Folkroots column, which is due on January 5th. I thought you might be interested in how I went about it. It’s a bit of a random process, working on a column. Not like working … Continue reading →