How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?: Essays on Modern Life

by Pandora Sykes

I was charmed and comforted by David Sedaris’s ‘Four Burners Theory’. In his essay, ‘Laugh, Kookaburra’, he lays out the four burners of life: family, friends, health and work. ‘In order to be successful you have to cut off one of your burners,’