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Comfort Clothes By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Every fall and many winter days I go outside in my Western Stockman Outback Duster for another adventure in the wild city of Manhattan. I got the coat 20 years ago during a visit to Australia, havin…
Why People Don't Have Hobbies By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Tim Wu's excellent opinion piece last fall in The New York Times, "In Praise of Mediocrity," has stuck with me because he talks about why people don't have a hobby — and I am one of those people. …
Slime Endures By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post We were introduced to the wonders and pleasures of slime when we visited the home of Elizabeth and Olivia, a friend's granddaughters. As videos of people shaping slime played on the TV set, they gav…
Book Clubs as Transfusion Centers By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In an article in The New York Times, writer James Atlas points out that there are about 5 million Americans participating in some kind of book club. They meet in living rooms, in local libraries, in…
My Neck as a Pleasure Palace By Frederic Brussat Blog Post The neck is a busy body part. In the front it contains vessels for speech, eating, blood, and breath. In the back it houses the spinal cord which beams brain signals to the heart and the rest of the…
No Place Like Home By Frederic Brussat Blog Post African Wisdom Not where I was born, but where it goes well with me is my home. — Kanuri Saying in Wisdom of the African World
The Joys of Reading By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post "Have a conversation with the author as you read. Underline passages that catch your fancy. Or, if you are reading a borrowed book or a library copy, copy favorite phrases into a notebook. Consider yo…
Sympathetic Joy as a Spiritual Gift By Jay McDaniel Blog Post I’ve discovered a new word and I want to share it with you. It’s called midding. Here’s the definition as found in John Koenig’s Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: midding v. intr. feeling t…
Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In a spiffy article in The New York Times, "Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline," Laura Pappano writes about a new phenomenon."Creative" has been the most used buzzword in LinkedIn profiles tw…
What Playfulness Can Do For You By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Leon Neyfakh at bostonglobe.com writes about the interest of scientific researchers in adult playfulness. We’ve seen lots of studies about our activities as workers, thinkers, and problem solvers …

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