1. During courtship, a male Adelie penguin presents his chosen female with a pebble as a gift. If the female accepts, they mate for life.
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Ideals + Musings
How to Slow Your Life
Two years ago, on a brightly lit stage in West L.A., Maria Shriver asks me this: But how? How do you do it? What would you tell someone who wants to slow their life, but can’t? Who feels totally buried already? I pause, blink at the lights. I say something about how there’s no easy
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Travel + Adventure
A Spiritual Schlep: Summer Camp for Grown-Ups
Image Credits: Iron & Lace for Camp Climb Summer camp for the young me was this: wet socks drying on hickory branches. Cold Dr. Pepper from the canteen. Legs dangling from the top balcony of Amity Hall, lost in a continual conversation with stars and the dirt beneath.
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Ideals + Musings
3 Good-for-Me Habits, and Another One
First, something: I’m wary of assigning sanctimonious yarns to everyday behaviors. In truth, what makes for a good habit today doesn’t always carry the years. Related – For months, in college, I subsisted solely on free dinner rolls from the restaurant I waitressed at in a valiant attempt to save enough money for my first
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Food + Drink
Cake No. 04: Lemon Berry Crumble
Well, this one simply didn’t turn out is what I’ll say first.
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Other
12 Books to Change Your Mind
If your home is carried by the spine of a book, if you find yourself up past midnight to devour just one last chapter, if you’ve ever left the party early because there’s a riveting tale tented on your nightstand, you’ll know what it means to encounter joy in 300 pages or less.
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Food + Drink
Cake No. 03: Apple Cider Donut Cake
You make this cake when it’s been overcast for four days and you’ve pulled another sweater out of storage for the week ahead. When it’s unseasonably gray, and you’re unseasonably gray, and if the weather calls for fall, why not summon a bit of cinnamon spirit?
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Ideals + Musings
A Good Thing to Be
On a walk in the woods, it’s not uncommon to transform. Who do you want to be today? I ask.