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…
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…