Essays on life, written from inside the uncertainty.
Writing that slows thinking just enough to notice what uncertainty is trying to teach us
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Browse all essaysEssays on love, loss, money, parenting, technology and work, each noticing the small thing that turns out to be the big thing.
Who Would Cry?
We measure a life by what it produced, but the question that survives death is who would notice we were gone.
Your Gut Is a Witness, Not a Judge
A good decision can land badly and a bad one can land well, so judge the process, and treat your gut as a signal to investigate rather than an order..
The Half-Second Before the Horn
presence and autopilot are both modes you're supposed to use, not one you're supposed to win — the actual skill is switching between them on purpose, in a life where effort shifts your odds but never fixes your outcome.
The Series
Sunday Odds
A fiction series about money. Each Sunday, in her mother's kitchen in Fairfax, Virginia, Anika brings a question about her first real paycheck, and Revathi, who has worked in markets for twenty-six years, answers in odds instead of certainties.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom
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Life is Happenning
A practical, funny, and occasionally enlightening guide to actually showing up for your own life.
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Pocket Poems
Short, plainspoken poems about love, longing, loss, and memory, and the quiet work of seeing yourself and the people you’ve lost without disguise.
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