Sublime

was living in my fairy-tale money story, what I thought an ideal life looks like, but my ideal was all about lifestyle (appearances) and not at all about value.

This is followed by a leisurely twenty-minute shower, a late breakfast, a long nap, and then a meandering perusal through a variety of periodicals. Meanwhile, I am ferrying our daughter to birthday parties and playdates. On weekend evenings, Tom doesn’t check with me before he meets friends for drinks; he just breezes out the door with the assumpti

Parece que o que é bom para os gansos é bom para os humanos também. Isso inclui a ancoragem. Desde o princípio, por exemplo, Assael “ancorou” suas pérolas às joias mais refinadas do mundo – e os preços acompanharam a âncora.

But the issue of children and who looks after them has become, in my view, profoundly political, and so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood without explaining to some degree how I found the time to write it. For the first six months of Albertine’s life I looked after her at home while my partner continued to work. This exp

D’après la toute première étude à grande échelle portant sur l’impact du temps dont dispose une mère, c’est la qualité du temps passé avec les enfants, et non la quantité, qui compte (donc posez votre téléphone quand vous êtes en famille).

‘Lego?’ I asked, incredulous as I read the correspondence. ‘You want us to move to Denmark so you can work for Lego?’ Was he kidding me? Were we in some screwed-up sequel to that Tom Hanks film where grown-ups get their childhood wishes granted? What next? Would Sylvanian Families appoint me their woodland queen? Were My Little Pony about to DM me

Matthew B. Crawford, philosophe-mécanicien, contribue aussi à nous enseigner la valeur des loisirs fondés sur une pratique artisanale.