Guide to your topophilic ideal

1. Arts and crafts, including but not limited to coloring, pottery and knitting.
2. All varieties of yoga.
3. Go for a walk. Notice how your breath feels. Notice your feet walking.
4. Singing, humming and whistling.
5. Free-writing before b...

• Get more life insurance on top of your company’s policy, as it is often far too little.
• Get renters insurance and be covered from robberies, vandalism, natural disasters, and even things like the medical bills of people who get hurt at your place, damages you cause at s...

Before the invention of writing or electronics, people used to keep palaces devoted to memory. Not physical palaces, but mental ones!

1. Think of a place you know well… a childhood home, perhaps, or where you live now.

2. Imagine walking up to that place, and puttin...