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 are being encouraged to live in the moment a good deal these days. The classical “Carpe Diem” (seize the day) has transformed into the…
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…
Everyday Life in Middletown is founded on the hope that close attention to everyday life can be a unifying social force—that by observing our everyday…
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…