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…
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…
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 does it mean to pay attention? The phrase is odd, as Essay Daily editor Ander Monson recently pointed out. It describes attention as something…
An antique grandfather clock in a house in the Delaware County countryside strikes midnight as a married couple gets ready for bed, taking vitamins and…