Long before ‘personal branding’ or ‘resilience’ became buzzwords, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a quiet manifesto on how to live ...

Like a modern-day Henry David Thoreau, writer and self-reliance guru Tamara Dean set out early in this century to make a home ...

Like a modern-day Henry David Thoreau, writer and self-reliance guru Tamara Dean set out early in this century to make a home in the country and to live simply there. The acres of choice for her ...

making a virtue of self-reliance. In his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Thoreau once wrote “That government is best which governs not at all”. Thoreau once spent a night in jail ...

About 10 years ago, my husband and I decided to try homesteading. We wanted to be self-sufficient and moved to a 93-acre farm in rural Maine. Over time, we realized it was harder than we thought ...

While brain rot is a real and pressing concern in our digital age, it is not an inevitable outcome. By approaching technology with intention, we can transform our online experience ...

Elsewhere, Vulchi’s cataloging of famous friendships provides some marvelous images, like Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz waiting in line for a movie, Emerson and Thoreau strolling together ...

I have known thousands of people during my lifetime, and each one has a distinct personality all their own. Let me tell you ...

Thank you to everyone who requested and picked up trees! Thanks to the Neighborhood Forest program for helping us to help our community grow greener. In the spirit of Earth Day, it’d be bad form ...