Community is essential for our health and well being, but it’s not easy to find. Here are three ways to build community and social connection that worked for me.
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A successful and happy experience for everyone, guests and hosts, primarily hinges on how well you’ve communicated before your guests arrive.
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Fits (with book notes) and starts (with human connections). Overall, June brought more progress than delays when it came to progress against 2022 goals.
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Check out my list of the best products and services I discovered in 2021, along with a few ideas for gifts that I found before 2021 but still absolutely adore.
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Going out into the world to encounter a bunch of strangers will intimidate anyone. The good news: The risk of meeting new people pays off more often than not.
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I’ve always loved board games—and only recently realized that many don’t work for cross-cultural groups. Fortunately, great games for multicultural gatherings abound. You just need to know what to avoid and what to seek.
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Coronavirus April managed to make up for March’s benevolence by throwing many activities related to goal achievement into the penalty zone.
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When reviving this site, I encountered entries from the series a few times. It interested me to see which items I still own—and which I still would call “loves.”
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When September arrived, I launched back into connection mode.
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Thanks to a colleague of Arnaud’s and his family, Arnaud and I finally had our first hike in Switzerland, in an area known as Les Pléiades near the town of Blonay.
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A chronicle of daily events for the week starting June 24, 2019, and ending June 30, 2019.
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My teacher assigned an essay about our memories of a person. I knew immediately who I wanted to memorialize.
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Though I won’t pull back the hood and show all my inner workings here, this website gives me a good place to highlight an insight from each month’s postmortem. How’d I do in March 2019?
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Things I love this October: Felix Doolittle stationery, Guy Degrenne teapots, and a variation on a recipe from Victory Meals.
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What should you say to someone shortly before they die?
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A real life doesn’t take the form of a neat narrative with a main character and extras superfluous other than their specific roles in the protagonist’s plot.
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How do you connect your friends?
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Why you can only have a handful of serious, close friends. (Sorry.)
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