I started cooking around 5, unaware it would start an argument. I was in Auckland, running out of money, overwhelmed by the prospect of a job search with no contacts in a foreign country. My whole li...
Growing up in a culturally mainstream (but non-religious) family, sinning wasn’t something I thought about much. It was something the church people dealt with and talked about. But I did sin an...
Last week I asked readers to answer the question, “Where are you right now in life, at this moment?” Including emails there are almost 200 responses so far. Read them here. Each person se...
I have no tattoos, but I’ve always loved them on other people. I just haven’t found anything yet that I’m sure I want on my skin forever. An English backpacker I knew, who had dozen...
I hope your biggest revelation this year is that you don’t really know what you want. We grow up thinking we know what we want, but we’re wrong. We all start with the wrong idea about it....
Last week sometime I was walking down a lively street in Queens with one of my favorite people, but I was barely there. I had been stressing about a handful of looming problems, when an aggressive pi...
It’s been a year since my most successful experiment. I had given up animal-derived foods to find out what it did for my health. After 30 years of indiscriminate eating, I finally gave the ethi...
While I was driving home from my appointment I couldn’t help but feel nervous that I would forget to do something: peel the price tag off a thing I just bought in case somebody saw how much it ...
Just a quick shoutout to a certain demographic. If you create as a habit, hobby or job — writing, visual arts, music, design, whatever — I think this will mean something to you. If you on...
Almost every day ends the same, with me lying unconsious on top of my favorite possession — my pillowtop queen. There are exceptions, such as when I travel, where I end up unconscious on some o...
All self-images are false. None of them match you. Any image that you’ve ever had of yourself, mental or visual, has been wrong. That’s because an image is not a person. An image is an im...
I’m back home now, and I’m feeling something I haven’t felt since the last time I returned from a big trip. Friday night I came in the door, dropped my bag, sat on the couch out of ...
Mother Nature’s running a trial-and-error business, so sometimes our programming doesn’t make a lot of sense. We come out of the box tuned for self-preservation and conformity. Not self-e...
Most things don’t work. Ever since my early twenties when I found myself inexplicably unhappy, I’ve been looking for things that work. Resolutions and experiments. Things to do. Quality o...
[If you cant see the pictures, view this post here. Press F11 if the images are too large for your browser.] When I try to describe how I feel here, all that comes out is clichés — there’...
[If youre viewing this via email, make sure you enable "display images" or click through to raptitude.com] NEW YORK, NY — Last Wednesday, thousands of students of all levels of educatio...
New Year’s Eve, for the first time, I had an alarming moment when I realized spaceships really were watching me through the ceiling. They knew where I was in the house. I was troubled by it and...
Stars, if you leave them for long enough, will eventually come up with the Mona Lisa. And not in a hypothetical way, like those non-existent, proverbial monkeys who are always typing up MacBeth by ac...
If you’re already going strong on a New Year’s resolution, then good for you. Run with it. Don’t let me get in your way. If you didn’t get around to making one, you didn’...
It only took about ten Christmases before I realized how quickly the new-toy feeling wears off. I knew by the time New Year’s came around, I would lose that feeling I looked forward to all year...
The world’s most famous war photojournalist, Robert Capa, swam ashore with American troops as Life magazine’s official photographer of D-Day. From the midst of the battle itself, Capa too...
As the story goes, God told Charleton Heston two things to do and eight things not to do, and he listened. Then he passed the rules along to others, and human morality was born. The commandments were...
*** “Your experiments are the most interesting part of the site for me, but you don’t talk about them much and you haven’t done one in a while. Are those old experiments still a par...
I was curious, so I conducted an anthropological experiment which ended when I was asked to leave the store by a senior dishwasher salesman. This year, Canadians — or at least the people who se...
I’m sick. I don’t get sick much. Somehow I still don’t quite believe I will ever get really sick but the statistics say there is a 100% chance I will die of something. So that means...
A recurring question I get from readers is, “How do you deal with negative people?” I’ve never directly written about it because I’m not always sure whether they’re aski...
When I arrived at the conservation office I was absurdly early, like I am for everything that’s important. At 9:30 a bus would take me and 39 others to a ferry, which would drop us at the begin...
Look in almost anyone’s shoebox of family photos and you’ll find mostly smiles. Some real, some given on command. Kids standing like sticks in front of the cabin or Epcot Center. Days at ...
They don’t need to take up too much math or science time, maybe just a single two-hour class for each, covering two a year. Plant a few seeds and leave them alone. They’ll grow, in in the...
My house is moldy and Parkinson’s Law is mostly responsible. If you’re not familiar, the Law is usually spelled out like this: “The time required for a task expands to fill the time...
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