March 2 · Reading
Rereading is the point
We treat finished books like used train tickets. But the books that change you are almost never the ones you read once — they are the ones you return to with a different pair of eyes.
Continue reading →Notes on the books I keep coming back to, the habit of reading slowly, and small experiments in making ordinary days feel a little more deliberate.
February 18 · Habits
Twenty quiet minutes before the phone
For three months I have started each morning with a book instead of a screen. The change is small and almost embarrassing to write down, and it has reordered my entire day.
Continue reading →February 4 · Notes
In defense of writing in your books
A clean book is a book you did not argue with. Pencil in the margins is how a reader talks back — and how, years later, you meet the person you used to be.
Continue reading →January 21 · Living
A shelf of finished things
On keeping one shelf only for books you have actually read, and why the slow filling of it is more satisfying than any list of things you mean to get to.
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