Category Life, the Universe, and Everything

A Lab For Compassion

As I’ve said before, my day job is at a middle school. I have a low threshold of boredom, and in this job it’s not a problem. If you are a writer who is feeling bereft of material, I suggest you…

Lighting the Darkness

Last weekend while many of us were busy managing our anxiety caused by two infantile, ego-possessed world leaders — one of them ours, as obscene as that fact is — threatening to blow us all to kingdom come, a virulent…

The Nicest Murderer I’ve Ever Met

I wrestled with whether or not to post this. It’s a disturbing topic, and one that could so easily become prurient, and I don’t want to go there. huffpost.com Questions of guilt and redemption, of what events shape a life…

Summer Games

It’s only early August, but summer is already spiraling toward its close ever more swiftly, like one of those disappearing wormhole effects in a sci-fi TV show. midnightinthedesert.com I return to a grown-up job at the end of next week,…

Stopping the Clock

I’ve just returned from a four-day road trip with my husband. In the course of those four days, I made a life-altering discovery which I am about to share with you. telegraph.co.uk You have the power to stop time. Not…