My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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“Get Outside of the House. Literally Get Out and Smell the Roses.”

Interview: Anne Kreamer. I met Anne Kreamer because I was a big fan of her book, Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters. Not dying her hair any more was a sort of happiness-project for Anne, so that really caught my attention. We soon discovered that we’d both grown up …


In Which I Create ‘Preference Card’ for Myself.

The other day, when I was listening to a presentation on organ donation, the speaker made reference to a surgeon’s “preference card” – a term I’d never heard. “What’s a ‘preference card?’ I whispered to the person sitting next to me. “Surgeons fill out a special form so that supplies and equipment can be set up the way they prefer.” …