Anna B

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

insignificant. I knew, in that moment, and perhaps for the first time, that I would one day die, that at some point there would be nothing left of me, my mittens, my breathing, my curls, my hat. I felt that conviction for the first time. My death felt like a person standing there next to me.

The dearth of optimistic visions of the future, at least in the United States, is central to the psychic atmosphere of this bleak era. Pessimism is everywhere: in opinion polls, in rising suicide rates and falling birthrates, and in the downwardly mobile trajectory of millennials.

With the final how we may reasonably expect that the grammatical, argumentative, and symbolic denouement is just around the comma-swiveling corner

It’s political and it’s cultural: At some point in the last few years, a feeling has set in that the future is being foreclosed

Our initial findings suggest that open goals can lead to performance at least as good as (and in some cases better than) SMART goals

The definition of success is a key difference between the Hero’s and the Heroine’s Journeys.

“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

-Susan Sontag