My Super Secret Diary is on sabbatical until June 6. In the meantime, please enjoy this selection my best posts from the past 18 months:

• No Regrets: On the things we wish we’d done differently.

• Work Less, Work More: On the work that doesn’t look like work.

• Breaking and Entering: About the time I got hired to scope out some abandoned houses in Detroit.

• Things That Sound Good: On saying things for how they’ll sound.

• Must Love Jobs: About the idea of quote-unquote “loving” your work.

• Love or Something Like It: About how weddings break my brain.

• Special: On thinking you’re special and realizing you’re not.

• Pyramid Pals: What I learned about belonging from my brief encounter with a multi-level marketing scheme.

• How to Lose a Mind in Ten Days: Flatulence, masturbation, and enlightenment on my silent meditation retreat.