Checking on my Sims 🗺️📍
🌎 The Big Topic: I can see you! iPhone users can share their locations with each other using the Find My app. It has some practical purposes. If friends and...
Putting the phone down 📵
🌎 The Big Idea: The Camera Eats First I hesitate when I see a QR code in place of a printed menu at a restaurant table. These codes entice, if not require,...
How I'm Reclaiming Christmas 🎄😌
🌎 The Big Topic: Christmas is a chore if you let it be one In America Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November and the following day is considered the...
Single All the Way 🎄🎅
🌎 The Big Topic: Single All the Way 🎄🎅 For 15 years I’ve been sending custom Christmas cards to friends and family (if you’d like to receive one, send me...
Do you even lift, bro? 💪
🌎 The Big Topic: How I Gave Into the Gym I turned 40 last month. It’s a milestone birthday that I celebrated a few times over the course of the month in Palm...
A Home at the End of the World 🏠⛵️
🌎 The Big Topic: Why I love Provincetown I wrapped up the summer in Provincetown, Mass., for the third summer in a row. The town, clinging to a sandy spit at...
Averting the Spectacles 🫣
🌎 The Big Topic: I always vote A presidential election is approaching, and unlike Britain’s six-week campaigns, American campaigns drag on interminably....
Being not a witness, but witnessed 👀
🌎 The Big Topic: Why I flew the Twitter coop 🕊️ September 11, 2021, was the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 and you couldn’t miss it, especially if you were on...
To rush to see the sun the other way around 🏃♂️☀️🏃♂️
🌍 The Big Idea: Go It Alone I spent two weeks last month exploring Spain, half the time with friends and half the time alone. Traveling solo and with friends...
How I Learned to Cook 👨🍳
🌎 The Big Topic: How I Learned to Cook People who follow my Instagram know I cook a lot. I’ve been cooking for myself since college, the first time in my...
I'm a World's Fair Enthusiast 🎡
🌎 The Big Topic: The World's Fair Do you ever associate a particular song with a time in your life or a place in your past? My friend Stephen Miller, in his...
I would walk 500 miles 🚶♂️
🌎 The Big Topic: Learning to Walk Again Eight years ago, I started a job that I could walk to in 30 minutes, a surprisingly common commute time throughout...
Briefly in the Shadows
🌎 The Big Topic: What I’m Discovering in Dry April I made a new year’s resolution to drink less alcohol. I didn’t have a numerical goal in mind and I didn’t...
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
🌎 The Big Topic: Pandemic Amnesia Tiny pocket-fitting cameras have exploded in quality and prevalence over the past 20 years. Cameras embedded in phones are...
I just can't get you out of my head 🧠
🌎 The Big Topic: Do you have an inner monologue? One warm summer day, I was in Dresden's train station frantically trying to buy a ticket from the automated...
Hello? Does this thing work? 🎤👈
Hello? Does this thing work? 🎤👈 Welcome to my newsletter, People in the Sun, which I intend to publish about twice each month. You will learn a little about...