There is probably something you have been about to do for years. Not neglecting — preparing. Getting ready. Waiting until the timing is better, the savings deeper, the moment less exposed. You are not lazy about it; if anything you think about it constantly. It sits in the back of the day like a room … Continue reading A Loss That Can Reach You
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The Same Paper: On Love, Control & the Limits of the Outside View
I once said, in a public argument about a book that advocated for divorce, that if I found my wife reading it we would have a conversation about it. My wife is a surgeon and the family breadwinner; the idea that I could control her is faintly comic to anyone who knows us. None of … Continue reading The Same Paper: On Love, Control & the Limits of the Outside View
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