Archive - The Way We Live Now

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Aug 17 •

BerkshirePubGrp

The places that placemakers miss

Exploring Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Aug 14 •

Karen Christensen

The secret to great cities and towns

And how traffic engineers get it wrong

Aug 11 •

Karen Christensen

49:55

The imperial banality of biography

Memory and memoir: a conversation for readers and writers

Aug 10 •

Karen Christensen

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54:37

Where does democracy happen?

Face to face, not screen to screen

Aug 6 •

Karen Christensen

July 2025

Alive, not AI'd

The kudzu of cocktail parties and customer service

Jul 29 •

Karen Christensen

Are we suffering from social allergies?

Loneliness may be a symptom of an allergic reaction to interaction with other people

Jul 22 •

Karen Christensen

How to have your book published in another language

A common question with a somewhat frustrating answer

Jul 17

Why travel anyway?

Exploring our world, come what may

Jul 16 •

Karen Christensen

A very small pond hosts frog orgies

I had no idea that this 2020 lockdown project would teach me, at long last, to pay attention to the natural world

Published on Home Ecology • Jul 14

Third places (tiers lieux) in France - an interview

A new book surveying "tiers lieux" invited me to explain the origins of the term

Jul 10 •

Karen Christensen

Where ICE is refreshing, not arresting

The impact on the US is just beginning to show

Jul 2 •

Karen Christensen

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