Richard Foster, in an interview with Shane Blackshear: The deepest discipline on the American scene today is silence, because we are absolutely consumed with insane babble.... I've made
So I saw this in my Twitter stream this evening: Tonight a driver almost killed me. At light, I told him to be careful. He said, "Why?" Me:
Jessica Francis Kane, writing in The Atlantic, talks about a Marcus Aurelius quotation that she took to heart: Book 8, #36 Do not disturb yourself by picturing your
In graduate school I had a semester when I had a lot of trouble waking up for a 9 AM seminar. I really liked my history of modern
Publishers' Weekly, one of the major publishing industry magazines, has a review of The Distraction Addiction in its latest issue. The highlight (for me anyway): Pang’s methods will
John O'Keefe, writing in This Ignatian Life about going on retreat: Before I left, I turned off all my email and vowed not to check it for 7
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a Caribbean nation consisting of a small chain of islands, ran a tourism campaign in 2012 built around the idea of getting away
Janet Kornblum (who I mentioned in a previous post) has a reflection on "Curating life (or not) from a hospital bed," prompted by a hospital stay and the
I argue in chapter 6 of my book that there's an important distinction between recreation and restoration, and that it's better for us to pursue the second rather than the first. This
Author Janet Kornblum makes a good point about digital Sabbaths: Chastising folks for being too connected, too often, is a lot like scolding young women for being too obsessed about their looks.