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Lifestyle & Health
1922: Why I Quit Being So Accommodating
A complete transcription of an oddly modern 1922 American Magazine essay in which an anonymous writer explains why he st…
50 Ways to Be Ridiculously Generous
Writer Alexandra Franzen lists fifty small, concrete ways to be generous without spending much money, from handwritten n…
An Honest Living
A reflective personal essay by a former tenured professor about starting over as a school bus driver, and what early rou…
Being Raised by the Internet
A personal essay on growing up with little money and how the early internet, forums and open tools became a teacher and…
Bright Wall/Dark Room
An online film magazine publishing personal essays and criticism about movies, exploring what cinema means to the people…
Confessions of a Once-Bearded Lady
A frank personal essay by a woman who began growing a beard at fourteen, about hiding it, shaving it and living with a b…
Diamonds Suck!
A passionate personal essay on why moissanite beats diamonds, covering the history of the diamond marketing myth, how th…
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Entertainment
DO IT ROCKAPELLA! The Epic Tale of Carmen Sandiego
Comedian Gregg Gethard tells the long, painfully funny true story of his teenage appearance on the game show Where in th…
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Lifestyle & Health
Eight Years Today
A personal essay by Gmail creator Paul Buchheit that opens with a hesitating driver at a green light and turns into a re…
Grid World
Alexander Miller's personal essay that begins with a childhood paper grid from his dad, a blank chessboard, and wanders…
I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life
A candid personal essay from a young founder after a big payout, wrestling with money, purpose, and what to do with life…
I Ate Nothing but Nutella for a Week
A funny personal essay recounting a broke 21-year-old's misguided week-long experiment of eating nothing but Nutella, an…
Life Lessons from Getting Fired from Burger King
A funny, tender personal essay about being fired from Burger King, wandering through desire, pudding, having it your way…
Losing Sight
Accessibility expert Leonie Watson writes a candid first-person account of losing her sight over a few months, and of le…
My Friend Aaron
A short story told as a memoir of a brilliant childhood friend who obsessively chased one fixation after another, from r…
My Six Stages of Learning to Be a Socially Normal Person
Sasha Chapin's candid, funny personal essay tracing how he slowly learned the unwritten rules of social life, from cluel…
Natural
A personal account of becoming a citizen of Japan, mixing anecdotes, opinion and observation about naturalization, belon…
Oh fuck, you're still sad?
A frank, tender essay arguing that grief does not follow a timeline and that loss is part of being human, written for an…
On Doing Hard Things
A candid personal essay about a self-declared uncoordinated person taking up kayaking, and what struggling at something…
Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter
A personal essay by a man with 'environmental OCD' who decided he is the 'someone' who should pick up litter, with the h…
Reasons I Didn't Become an EMT, Ranked
A funny, candid list of 21 reasons the author put off getting an EMT license, sorted from the sensible to the ridiculous…
Same Stop
A retired Apple programmer reflects on life after 26 years of coding and the odd, personal projects that fill his days,…
Someone Stole My Car and Now I Own Hundreds of Vinyl Records
A wry true story from Los Angeles about a stolen car, the odd chain of events that followed, and the stash of vinyl reco…
Stuff
A reflective essay by Kris Bartkus that begins with an aggressive hard sell in a Mombasa market and turns into a meditat…
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