That’s why I began writing this newsletter—as a form of public notetaking and writing practice. What I didn’t expect was that, in the process of flinging these posts into a void, I would actually hear from people who were reading these little summaries. This wasn’t meant to be real writing! It was just practice—practice for something else more

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“The reason to get married,” Christman writes,

is because you have met a person interesting enough that, death being inevitable, you’d prefer to experience it with them…

Marrying…was the best choice I’d ever make and that was part of the problem. A good marriage is a eucatastrophe: it ends a phase of your life well but decisively. Things are not the... See more