Anxious Machine

I’ve always had a problematic relationship to the news, and I’ve struggled to navigate that even more since this pandemi... Read more

Like most people, I imagine, I've been having a lot of anxious thoughts these days. And I’ve been wishing I could get th... Read more

I'm announcing a whole new podcast, and giving you a listen to the first episode. The podcast is called Before It Had a ... Read more

Sometimes in your life, you reach a crossroads, go on a men’s weekend, spend too much time alone in the forest, have a m... Read more

Parents of young children have an especially fraught relationship with their smartphones. On the one hand, these devices... Read more

This past week, my kids went back to school. Summer vacation has come and gone. And that’s gotten me thinking about the ... Read more

Since the wide-spread adoption of embalming in the United States, most Americans have turned the process of handling the... Read more

My older brother Scott lives almost completely outside the network of modern life: he has no internet, no email address,... Read more

Humans have been reading for thousands of years, but ever since the invention of television, people have been worried th... Read more

When she was growing up, Adrienne didn’t want to believe she was losing her hearing, and she didn’t want to wear hearing... Read more