Solastalgia is a neologism introduced by Australian Philosopher Glenn Albrecht to describe the psychic harm caused by environmentally induced distress. Any context in which pervasive…
December 9, 2021 was a Thursday, mostly cloudy but mild in Muncie, with the temperature rising to 54 degrees after dropping to its first almost-wintry…
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…
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…
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…