Interviews & Commentary

Interviews & Commentary features conversations, perspectives, and opinion pieces related to blogging and digital publishing. It highlights the voices behind the work, including bloggers, writers, editors, and industry participants.

The goal is thoughtful commentary that reflects the community and the evolving realities of publishing on the web.

People who downsize late in life and keep the strangest small objects aren’t being irrational — each one is a door back into a room the rest of the house has already forgotten

People who keep every birthday card they’ve ever received aren’t sentimental hoarders — for many, the cards are proof there was a time they were thought of without having to ask

The first generation to text their grandchildren is also the last to have written real letters, quietly carrying both worlds across a bridge that closes

I have interviewed 35 people who reconciled with a difficult parent right before the end, and almost none of them got an apology — what they got instead was smaller and somehow enough

If your grandfather’s watch could account for the years between the day he bought it and the day it stopped, almost all of it would be ordinary — which is exactly what made it a life