Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

aka How to Be in a Community

That shot was taken over the Clark Fork in Missoula, Montana, about halfway through my 12 mile marathon training run earlier this week. I used to be steadfast in my commitment to never run a marathon:…

Or, The Misery of Monochronic Time

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«That term originated in China, where it’s known as 報復性熬夜, and can alternately be translated as “retaliatory staying up late.”»

I’ve spent more than three years interviewing friends for “The Friendship Files.” Here’s what I’ve learned.

«I’ve come to believe that friendship doesn’t always have to be about presence; it can also be about love that can weather absence.»

The loneliest decades are not what you think they are

«sometimes being a part of something meant just showing up every week and doing semi-boring stuff, like setting out the cookies before coffee hour.»

How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist with others in society today.

It is enormously empowering – even intoxicating – to lose yourself to a crowd. That is why we need contrarians

«paradoxical form of identity: you are somebody not despite the fact that you’ve melted into the crowd, but because of it.»

Between the endless shelves of your local public library is more than just books.