Looking out of my window at the Reichenbach Falls and the mountains above it comes with a small …
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Making your life an epic adventure with The Gutsy Girl by Caroline Paul
I read The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure by Caroline Paul when I was …
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Haruki Murakami on travelling light (and just getting up and going)
When I’m travelling, I like to read Haruki Murakami. I like the clean writing style of his books, …
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“A hunter knows when to quiet his mind”: Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova, and a defence of solitude
I wrote in my last article about the classical scholar Edith Hamilton, who wrote of Aeschylus: …
Kierkegaard on how “if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right”
Unfinished sketch of Kierkegaard by his cousin Niels Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840I …
A Year Abroad in Books (Alongside Homesickness and Coming Home)
Some of you may know that from August 2013 I was in Spain, working in Barcelona for the year abroad …
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