“Great fears of the Sicknesse here in the city, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. . . . God preserve us all,” wrote Samuel Pepys in 1665. The thirty-two-year-old British politician began keeping a daily record of the bubonic plague's ravaging of London that spring. His words feel a …
Making space [for writing.]
"If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something."Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (2015) Is there such a thing as a creative hangover? A creative drought, perhaps? These were the things rolling about in my mind as I sat down a few weeks ago to write -- …
Five on a Friday: Podcasts for a Varied Life
I am addicted to podcasts. Much like the earlier 2000s were the golden age of blogging, it seems that today we are living in a golden age of audio. Podcasts crept into my life very unassumingly. I can’t even name the first one I ever listened to. But like the Netflix-induced binging of television series …
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