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Annie Dillard Was a Real One: The Woman Who Understood That Seeing the World Is Not the Same as Understanding It

Annie Dillard spent her life examining the extraordinary mysteries hiding inside ordinary existence. Her passing reminds me that the greatest writers don't simply teach us how to read the world. They force us to confront how little of it we've actually bothered to see. There is something profoundly unsettling about losing a writer who spent her entire life reminding us that everything was temporary in the first place. It's almost as though death, that arrogant bastard, decided to interrupt a conversation about its own inevitability. And in the case of Annie Dillard, the irony is particularly cruel because few writers understood the strange relationship between life, suffering, beauty, and mortality quite like she did. Annie Dillard died on September 15, 2026, at the age of 81. The world lost a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, an extraordinary essayist, a fearless intellectual, and a woman who possessed the increasingly endangered ability to look at something ordinary and reco...
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Declutter These Things in Thirty Seconds (Or Less!)

Clutter can be overwhelming, especially when you’re so busy that you don’t have time to clean. Thankfully, there are some simple tasks you can do in thirty seconds (or less!) that can make a major difference in your cleanliness. Here are twenty things you can declutter in thirty seconds:

  1. Tracked dirt by the door
  2. Empty shampoo bottles in the shower
  3. Cups anywhere but the sink/dishwasher
  4. Makeup on the bathroom counter
  5. Food packages anywhere but the kitchen trash
  6. Trash in your purse
  7. Books off the bookshelf
  8. Clothes on the floor
  9. Clothes on your exercise equipment
  10. Dishes on the table
  11. Dishes on your desk
  12. Pens on your desk
  13. Kids toys on the floor
  14. Wet towels on the bathroom floor
  15. Takeout menus you’ll never use
  16. Coat hangers left out from getting dressed
  17. The ironing board in the middle of the room
  18. Shoes on the floor
  19. That pile of junk mail
  20. Candy wrappers in your coat pockets
  21. Starbucks cups in your car
  22. Unseasonal decorations leaning against the wall
  23. Reusable shopping bags scattered on the floor
  24. Scrap paper piled on your desk

Even taking the time to do one or two of these can help you feel less overwhelmed by junk and clutter until you have time or motivation to tackle something a little bigger. And what more, checking off a few things on this list might be the spark you need to light up that motivation. So choose a task, set your timer for thirty seconds, and get your living space looking a little cleaner and more comfortable.


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