Sitemap - 2024 - The Way We Live Now

Joyful reading: a podcast about the novels of Anthony Trollope

The stories we really need now

To be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie with Carl Rollyson

Know when to fold 'em

The 7 Places (and Spaces)

Coffee break conversation

The man, and the women, behind the Gaia Theory

When Women Take the Lead

What Starbucks tells us about America, and about ourselves

Friday Triad: 3 new business models for third places

The Strongman Problem

What if you don't want to hear about US politics, or China?

An affirming flame

The political value of third places

Ray Oldenburg on third places during the pandemic

Democracy in America

Will silent women save the world?

Graveyards & garden cemeteries

Our finest hour?

The ways we need trees

Love and loss this Columbus Day

Anti-Amazon, pro-author, pro-copyright

A tunnel under Long Island Sound?

Third places are popping up all over

Train Time podcast: A tunnel under Long Island Sound?

Bartenders & barricaded baristas

George's place

The 7 characteristics of a third place

Politicking in third places

Politicking in third places

Yes, we can all have e-bikes! (EVs are another story)

The China Walz

The power (and joy) of talking to strangers

Lotus magic

All the time in the world

"I don't need therapy - I just need to go to Italy"

Rising to the challenge

The 15-Minute City hosts the global games

Keir Starmer, McDonald's, and Home Ecology

Celebrating a third place: The Star of Greenwich

If not Michelle, how about Jill?

The beautiful results of a road closure

A Plea to Jill Biden: Reckon with Reality

Finding the Perfect Book Title

What we do or who we are?

Graveyards as third places?

Windows into China: poetry and detection

Poetry in English and Chinese

Election year climate considerations

No More No Mow May?

From HEATED: Are your internet habits killing the planet?

No one buys books

Don't fly away: book a train trip instead

Quietly vegan: Armenian Soup and more

A conversation with Antoine Burret

We need a new Earth Day

A Victorian novel about the future of Judaism

Seth Moulton’s Bold Vision for High-speed Rail

Seth Moulton’s Bold Vision for High-speed Rail

Great Barrington at the Supreme Court?

Train Campaign & Housatonic Line update

Train Campaign & Housatonic Line update

Making world history on Earth Day

Making world history on Earth Day

April Fool's note & new Home Ecology

MIT to build Great Barrington campus (April Fool's!)

Women thinking globally

The New Home Ecology! September 2024

Steel yourself for this one!

What's the Matter with Substack?

Libraries Make the World a Better (& Greener) Place

Women in a world of "strongman" leaders

Great Barrington defined

Reports from the Trenches

Talking book promotion with Paul Bogaards

A big-box publisher's effort to reassure authors and agents

Homesteading Part II: Greener Pastures

Grief and hope: Ukraine after 2 years

Migration as a systems crisis

Do you have a third place? And why do you need one?

McNeill video test to try out Substack video

Why EVs too kill social life

Make a bag bouquet

Our longest march (with photos from the Shanghai launch)

Publishing: A guide for the unwary

On giving up publishing

Homesteading Part I

The Ecovillage Ideal