Gavril Nikolaev 
We know that Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935–January 17, 2019) was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a woman of immense talent who lived in the present moment, loved her dog Percy, and celebrated nature. But we don’t know much about her life before acclaim and accolades made her one of America’s … Read more
Consider the choices you make every day: what food you order, how often you exercise, the way you organize your work. You might think that they’re the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits. If you can change your habits, you can change your life. This is what Charles Duhigg explores in … Read more
One of the reasons why I love reading is because it can become a portal that transports us to simpler, happier times. A few days ago, “The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World” by Laurence Scott became such a portal. It reminded me of “the early years of life in the fourth … Read more
The press no longer plays the role of a gatekeeper. It doesn’t decide what information the public should know and what it should not. “If the New York Times decides not to publish something, one of countless other websites, talk radio hosts, social media networks, blogs, or partisans will,” write Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel … Read more