Weekly notes

Modern Life Weekly

Short essays on habits, home and the small mechanics of everyday life.

The case for one good chair

We buy furniture for rooms we imagine and end up living in the corner we already liked. A short argument for spending on the seat you actually use.

Coffee, measured

Ratios matter more than beans for the first year. A simple table that fixed our mornings.

Walking as transport

Notes from three months without a car in a mid-sized European city.