This week on the Everyday Life in Middletown blog we introduce a new feature. We are giving you one of our volunteer diaries in its…
“How does everyday life feel to you? Do the habits and routines of the day-to-day press down on you like a dull weight? Do they…
Anxiety is having a cultural moment. Op-ed columns and TV news features have seized on anxiety as the definitive malady of our age. They point…
We could stand to give ourselves a break. Self-judgment is one of the most insistent themes in the Everyday Life in Middletown diaries. The diaries…
Editor’s note: Today we are re-printing an essay EDLM Director Patrick Collier wrote for EssayDaily, a popular blog for and about non-fiction writers. The occasion…
What kind of mood are you in right now? Feeling good, for no specific reason? Stressed? Hazy and sluggish? Neutral? And, more to the point,…
“At home, B. shows me the old heater, charred and in pieces. He quickly installs the new device and no fish seem the worse off…
What does it mean to pay attention? The phrase is odd, as Essay Daily editor Ander Monson recently pointed out. It describes attention as something…
When we relaunched EDLM in late 2017 we referred to this day’s collection of diaries (Nov. 14, 2017) as Diary Day 1. Later we incorporated…