Wonderings

I was having lunch with an old friend last week—someone I hadn’t seen in about five years. Across the table,

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the difference between the moments we plan to be happy and the ones

Have you ever noticed how much energy we spend trying to control things that were never ours to control in

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what we owe ourselves, and it keeps landing on something uncomfortable: the permission

What keeps you going on a Tuesday afternoon when the rain won’t stop and nothing feels particularly meaningful? I was

There’s something I’ve been noticing lately about aging and how it plays tricks on us. Not the obvious things—the creaky

You know that feeling when you’re trying to convince someone of something, and the harder you push, the more they

I’ve been thinking about how we measure ourselves as we get older. There’s this unspoken assumption that relevance belongs to

There’s a strange paradox at the heart of friendship that nobody talks about much. We crave closeness with the people

There’s something I’ve been wrestling with lately—this idea that more is always better. We’re taught to keep climbing, keep acquiring,