Loving Your Inner Hobbit

We all want to be daring and bold. Letting yourself be a stubborn hermit a lot of the time might bring you more adventures in the long run.

Quoi de plus (1973) by Dorothea Tanning

I never take time off from writing this column. Even back when I was writing Ask Polly for New York and The Awl, I never took a break. There are good reasons for this: I love writing this column. Even when I’m not in the mood, I love being forced to enter the compassionate zone that’s required to answer a letter.  …