Rachel Carson on the Intelligence of Wonder

From the 1965 Reader's Digest book: How to Live with Life.

How To Live Holiday Guide

How to give good gifts

Proust's First Selfie

The Victorian parlour game that became a cultural mirror.

A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Human Experience

Discover the Wellcome Collection, London’s free museum of health, history, and imagination.

Things I'm loving: 2 books, 1 artist and 1 song.

What's getting me through

The Feeling of the Form: On the Nature of Taste

Why this and not that?

A Private Walking Tour Through Malta in 84 Photos.

Follow me and meet God. No, really.

Creative Inputs: Artists, Ideas, and One Song on Repeat

These things are bringing me joy

Year End Gifts For You

A non-denominational virtual stocking

How to Live's Annual Gift Guide!

What We Give Reflects Who We Are—or Who We Wish to Be

What’s Worth Sharing: Art, Cinema, and the Books That Stay With Us

From my house to yours...

Things Worth Sharing: What I'm Reading, Watching & Thinking About

Current doings at Stern Enterprises

Things I'm Loving

Because even when I'm sad, I love things.

Things I'm Loving

Because We All Need Some Beauty

Things Worth Sharing

From Me to You.

Holiday Gifts For Those Who Need Extra Support

Last minute gifts from the How to Live newsletter

Small Delights: Practitioners I love

On the Rare Art of Being Truly Cared For

DIY for Mental Health Maintenance

Small Delights and inanimate objects I LOVE.

Peripherals Edition

Peek Inside My Cabinet of Comforts for Daily Mental Repair

What gets me through.