How Not to Waste Your Life

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/12/hawthorne-life/

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/02/thoreau-friendship/

The Only Three Distinctions Between People

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/01/nathaniel-hawthorne-classification/

Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/30/louise-bourgeois-solitude/

Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/29/thoreau-screech-owl/

How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/13/whitman-emerson-criticism/

The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/12/audre-lorde-despair/

Simone de Beauvoir on Marriage and the Freedom to Change

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/04/simone-de-beauvoir-marriage-change/

ZDNet: This free app makes journaling so easy that I’ve managed to do it for 3 months. “Diarly has the perfect collection of features, so you don’t feel like it’s missing anything. Neither is the feature list overwhelming. You can install Diarly and immediately start journaling, which is exactly what I did.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/27/zdnet-this-free-app-makes-journaling-so-easy-that-ive-managed-to-do-it-for-3-months/

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/23/rockwell-kent-wilderness/