Melissa Kirsch

It’s a holiday weekend, three days to ease from one seasonal mind-set into the next, even if it feels too soon.

It’s graduation season, a time of aspiration and anxiety. Today is about the aspiration — the wisdom to be gleaned from great commencement addresses.

Why does it feel worse to be early than to rush and stress and arrive a little late?

How often do you talk to strangers? What’s stopping you?

Our lives are governed by wondrous phenomena that we don’t often stop to consider.

With spring comes the urge to spring-clean. It’s about so much more than just organizing your closet.

What can we learn from April, a month of contradictions that never cleanly resolve themselves?

We don’t have to travel to the moon to gain some of the insight that astronauts do.

Entertaining out-of-town visitors can yield ideas for how to live more intentionally in your everyday life.

Astronomical spring began yesterday, but the actual change of season is more gradual, a halting and nonlinear progression.

Introducing The Good List, a new weekly newsletter by Melissa Kirsch designed to bring joy and meaning to your days.

If decreasing dependence on our phones feels impossible, we might benefit from considering what we’d want to fill the space that they occupy.