“Analyzing data from 79 men and women who wore inconspicuous devices that recorded some of their conversations over the course of four days, researchers from Washington University and the University of Arizona found a correlation between feelings of well-being and… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
The greatest sex toy ever invented may be the telephone. Sometimes there's nothing more erotic than a disembodied voice, no question more tantalizing than… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was becoming provincial… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends and that's a way of recording what I was thinking… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway.… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I just am a person who loves houses. In a way, it's dovetailed into one of the themes of The Unspeakable: Why do you… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of forming an… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
New York is such a special place. It's really intense for people because they live here when they're young. On top of the energy… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part.… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
![“I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because]…” quote by Meghan Daum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/107/meghan-daum-18332_bears_i-feel-that-i-m-an-essayist-and-that-my_1054935.jpg)
