Reach a certain age and the internet fills with checklists promising to certify your life: achieve these seven things by seventy and you have lived meaningfully. The lists are usually well meant, and they tend to point at genuine...
Virginia Beach had a problem that most cities solve with geography: nowhere to put its garbage. The city sits on the flat coastal plain of the Chesapeake, with the water table lurking six to eight feet below the surface,...
In 1904, Munsey’s Magazine surveyed the private playgrounds of America’s rich and awarded Jekyll Island the full crown: the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible club in the world. The judgment was barely an exaggeration. The membership roll...
Ossabaw Island sits twenty minutes by boat from Savannah, Georgia, and several decades from everywhere else. It is the state’s third-largest barrier island, 26,000 acres of beach, salt marsh and live-oak forest hung with Spanish moss, roamed by wild...
The valley floor of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is one of the most photographed landscapes in America: sagebrush flats running to the Snake River, the Teton range erupting behind them with no foothills to soften the view. Nearly all of...
Cultural habits that prevent you from becoming rich is a headline that sells because it flatters a comforting idea: that wealth is mostly a matter of personal discipline, and that anyone not rich must simply have the wrong habits....
By the early 1850s, the most famous house in America was falling down. Mount Vernon, George Washington’s estate on the Potomac, had passed through three generations of Washington heirs, each less able than the last to afford it. The...
Two million people a year walk the paved path in Sequoia National Park to stand before the General Sherman Tree, the largest tree on Earth by volume, 275 feet of sequoia that was already a thousand years old when...
The promise of a 21-day habit has always been appealing. It offers a clean date on the calendar: repeat a behaviour for three weeks and effort is supposed to give way to autopilot.
A University College London study found something...
Keep a balance between work and home. It is advice so universally endorsed that it barely registers as advice at all, more a sort of ambient wisdom that everyone nods at and few examine. The importance of it is...
