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Musings on our ever evolving relationships to work, home, community, culture, food, the environment, and more.
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Life without a Wrist Watch (opens the original)
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Welcome to another edition of Willoughby Hills!This newsletter explores topics like history, culture, work, urbanism, transportation, travel, agriculture, self-sufficiency, and more.I’ve been thinking about time a lot lately.Not long ago, I was talking to a retired teacher, who commented to me that her concept of time has completely shifted since she left her profession. She doesn’t even wear a wrist watch anymore. Her days are full, but she is less driven by hourly demands and is more focu
Data Mining My Memories (opens the original)
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Welcome to another edition of Willoughby Hills!This newsletter explores topics like history, culture, work, urbanism, transportation, travel, agriculture, self-sufficiency, and more.In the last decade or so, we’ve all had some version of this experience: you say something out loud, or you pass something in a store, or you realize you’re low on a certain item and suddenly, like it was reading your mind, there’s that item in front of you on a screen.It might be a sponsored post on a soc
Some Wendell Berry Writings and Listenings (opens the original)
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Welcome to another edition of Willoughby Hills!This newsletter explores topics like history, culture, work, urbanism, transportation, travel, agriculture, self-sufficiency, and more.<div class="im
The Little Things (opens the original)
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Welcome to another edition of Willoughby Hills!This newsletter explores topics like history, culture, work, urbanism, transportation, travel, agriculture, self-sufficiency, and more.Massachusetts was supposed to be one of the places where climate change might be felt less acutely. That’s not the case anymore.A few weeks ago, our skies were orange for a number of days because of wildfire smoke traveling from Ontario to Boston and beyond. Stepping outside at midday, I could see a ball of light in
Dumb Phones Won't Save Us (opens the original)
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Welcome to another edition of Willoughby Hills!This newsletter explores topics like history, culture, work, urbanism, transportation, travel, agriculture, self-sufficiency, and more.Like many people, I am not happy with the relationship that I have with my smart phone.It’s easier to recognize the problem in other people than to admit it to myself. Sitting in a doctor’s waiting room or on a subway car and realizing that everybody around me is being transported into their own little world. Th
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