House and Meals

How To Read Your House

Kelton Wright | Shangrilogs | 11th October 2026

The way we design our homes can be far from the way we end up inhabiting them. A study tracking traffic in houses found that most activity was concentrated in the kitchen and family room. “We rarely make a conscious decision that we no longer use a part of our house. Our houses, while valid maps of who we are, also contain a lot of evidence about the people we expected to be” (2,100 words)

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Abolish The Meal!

Juliet Jacques | Vittles | 12th October 2026

In which the author frees herself from the tyranny of thinking about what to eat by eating meal replacements all week. “This experience has reminded me of the need for variety in all aspects of life, of how joyless the concept of trying to replace physical sensations is once you act upon it, and the delight in different tastes even when I know what I’m consuming is terrible, aesthetically and nutritionally” (2,200 words)