Since Muncie was in the path of totality, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to capture the experience of the day. A couple of things stand…
Editors Note: We’ve written about the intersection of everyday life and politics before on this blog (here and here, for instance), focusing mainly on the…
Here at EDLM, we spend a lot of time reading our volunteer’s day diaries and looking for patterns and themes. One of the founding premises…
Our next diary day will be Tuesday, February 13th! Check back here and on our social media for updates and reminders. (Note: We had originally…
Remember when all we wanted was a return to routine? When the pandemic, especially those unnerving weeks of lockdown, shut down our daily doings, infusing…
Everyday Life in Middletown is set up to capture ordinary, routine life—the daily patterns and variations that constitute most of our experience but typically go…
Late Gen X-ers and younger Baby Boomers—a sizable demographic among EDLM’s volunteer writers—have lived about half of their lives with the internet and half without…
For this summer’s writing project, we asked our volunteers to talk to us about work and online life. Their responses are now on the Everyday…
Even though it’s the middle of summer, we at EDLM have work on our minds. Work makes up so much of our everyday lives. Indeed,…
As we have over the past few summers, we are sharing a directive with volunteers. The term “directive” comes from Mass Observation, the British project…