Archive - The Way We Live Now

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 • 16 hrs ago

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

Who are the men in masks?

Deportation raids and national character

Jul 1 •

Karen Christensen

June 2025

Two items from the US of A

Tidbits of news that speak to a change in our once fair land

Jun 16 •

Karen Christensen

16 days in China, back in the USA

Travels in China along the Silk Road and Great Canal

Jun 15 •

Karen Christensen

May 2025

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'Tis the gift to be free

Voluntary simplicity and the Prosperity Gospel

May 17 •

Karen Christensen

On The Degrading Effects of Life Online

How social media makes us worse people

Published on After Babel • May 9

“What ever happened to femininity?”

And other questions from the sauna

May 6 •

Karen Christensen

April 2025

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