My Virtual Reading Room

How to be grateful--and whether to be grateful, an ever-relevant piece of advice from Carolyn Hax:

...Please take this as permission to treat certain periods of your life as an unholy free-for-all during which you are not obligated to feel grateful. Unless gratitude helps — in which case, go ahead with the gratitude exercises.

Some times are really just about getting through. I've suggested this before and it was really helpful for me during the worst of the pandemic: When overwhelmed, try zooming either way in or way out.
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Seneca's Tragic Plays, from Classical Wisdom


The Badass Lady Pilot Who Revolutionized the Art of Food Writing, from Mental Floss

With a name like Clementine Paddleford, she should have been unforgettable. So why don’t you know who she is?


Letter by Letter, Steve Gleason Typed His Memoir With His Eyes, from The New York Times

The former N.F.L. player has been living with A.L.S. for more than a decade. Sharing “the most lacerating and vulnerable times” in “A Life Impossible” was worth the physical and emotional toll, he says.