We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler

I wonder sometimes if I’m the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that’s simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

“The secret to a good life,” he told me once, “is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you’re doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.”

The spell will be broken only when the people rise up. So rise up already.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone.