A Mindful Life

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? –Harry Shearer

Which is worse? Writing a memoir which contains passages of events that never happened or exaggerates real events to make them more “interesting” (a la James Frey). Plagiarizing three four other novels when writing one’s own novel (a la Kaavya Viswanathan, who recycled text from the novels of Sophie Kinsella, Meg Talbot, Megan McCafferty, and [...]

What Dr. Ralley is forgetting, of course, is that whether or not you get taken to Alton Towers and fed chocolate on a Good Friday, childhood is and will always be full of the most unbreachable, yawning, demonic chasms of pure boredom – there you are, minding your own business, and your mum says, “Do [...]

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. –Ruth Benedict