Doing What We Can to Deal

Welcome. Much of the continental United States is seeing winter storms this week, snowfall and icefall, astonishing cold. Some three million people are still without electricity in Texas; a friend in Dallas described it as “quarantine in quarantine.” I hope you’re inside and keeping safe. If you’re trying to stay warm at home, experts advise…

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What to Do This Weekend

Welcome. I’ve had a lot of conversations recently about how difficult it can be to articulate precisely what one is feeling these days. The headlines tell us what is happening, but they don’t always touch on what is happening with us. Us, existing — we know, we know — in times unprecedented and extraordinary. We’re…

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Chocolate Pudding Is the Answer

Good morning. How are you? There’s a lot of anger circulating these days, pandemic-weary annoyance, medium-grade depression. I think it’s more important than ever that we try to believe that people are operating mostly from a position of good faith rather than bad, and to respond to the stimuli the pandemic offers us accordingly. If…

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House Hunting in Switzerland: A 17th-Century Farm With Bauhaus Updates

Three Historic Houses Outside Zurich $10.6 MILLION (9.5 MILLION SWISS FRANCS) This 17th-century viticultural farmstead, comprising three renovated timber-frame buildings with lake views, sits on two-thirds of an acre in the town of Wädenswil, about 15 miles south of Zurich, in north-central Switzerland. Listed as a protected historical monument, the winemaking estate — including a…

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