The bliss of the long Friday bath
A small letter on the practice of taking an extended bath on Friday evenings — and on what the right kind of…
The massage I trade with a friend
A small letter on a long-standing arrangement with a friend — we trade hour-long massages, monthly, in alternating…
The blissful no-plans Sunday
A small letter on the practice of keeping one Sunday a month entirely unplanned — and on what the small radical act of…
The bliss of a perfectly warm towel
A small letter on a small modification to the bathroom — a heated towel rail kept on year-round — and on the case for…
The bliss of the spa day alone
A small letter on the practice of taking, twice a year, a full solo day at a particular small spa — and on what a day…
The bliss of going to bed at nine
A small letter on the experiment of keeping a very early bedtime on Sunday evenings — and on what nine hours of sleep…
The bliss of the foot massage
A small letter on a small specific bodywork modality — the dedicated foot massage — and on why this most overlooked of…
The bliss of the quiet café
A small letter on a small particular café in our neighbourhood that I go to most Wednesday afternoons — and on the…
The bliss of the slow morning
A small letter on the small ninety-minute morning routine I have refined over years — and on the case for protecting…
The bliss of the paired cold and warm
A small letter on a small specific practice — alternating cold and warm contact on the body — and on what this small…
The bliss of the shared evening practice
A small letter on the small practice my partner and I have shared for years — twenty minutes of side-by-side body work…
The bliss of the Sunday massage I give myself
A small letter on a Sunday morning practice — forty-five minutes of slow self-massage with warm oil — and on the case…
The bliss of the small private spa evening
A small letter on a small monthly practice — turning the apartment into a small private spa for an evening — and on…
The bliss of the late summer evening bath
A small letter on a particular kind of bath — the warm bath taken in early summer evening with the window open and the…