About Me
I'm a medievalist on a quest to Do Less and Accomplish More, be productively indolent, and incorporate more high-quality chocolate into my diet.Recent Entries
How Not To Persuade
It’s all very well to focus on the sunny side of things, but only after I’ve achieved enlightenment and am able to see the sunny side of a... read more
Where the Time Goes
My mother always used to say, “Where does the time go?” So I’m here to announce officially where the time goes. It goes towards fending off th... read more
A Brief Carrot Warning
Do you ever go on one of those life-improvement binges in which you vow to actually eat your vegetables, for once? And you decide to start with carr... read more
The Red Obsession
Four Sites and a Very Profound QuoteThe first three of these are the most amazing websites I’ve seen in, maybe, ever.Their Circular LifeFive places ... read more
You, Andrew Marvell
Like Nick Hornby’s characters in High Fidelity, I sit around making lists of my favorite things. Unlike Nick Hornby’s characters, my lists do not... read more
Do More and Accomplish Less
I know you were thinking, “So,” you were thinking, “I assume that long, painstaking, and stunningly learned entry for the Oxford Dictionary of t... read more
Getting Rich Slowly
Get Rich Slowly (http://www.getrichslowly.org/) is a dandy personal finance website that combines nuts-and-bolts money info with reflections on why we... read more
In Which E-mail Overwhelms the Universe
E-mail is a black hole that sucks up all available time. It’s like that piece of malevolent rock in that ‘50s horror movie I watched, filled with... read more
Damn Good
I remember my excitement when I found out, at the age of nine or ten, that my father wrote the headlines in the newspaper. I knew he wrote for the pa... read more
The Three Truths
Things that are unequivocally, indubitably, stuuningly true are hard to come by. It takes someone like King Arthur to come up with three of them. So ... read more
