Some ideas stay abstract. Others quietly become a way of life. I’m interested in the second kind.
I’m Diana Demco. I write about attention, books, culture, and the ways we try to make sense of a life.
The featured essay
Wellness Overload: The Stress of Always Being Well
What happens when looking after ourselves becomes another demand to meet?
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Three ways into my writing
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Everyday life
In Defense of Getting Attached To Material Things
Why some things are worth holding on to.
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Culture & ideas
Is Liberal Education a Waste of Time?
What are the humanities still for?
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Reading & thinking
What Makes a Great Sentence?
How individual sentences carry a piece of writing.
From the Library
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
On attention, refusal, and learning to inhabit the world more deliberately.