Alex Johnson
Notes from Kenya and other explorations
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 18 | Founded | 8 years ago | Last Issue | 5 months ago |
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My Favorite Books of 2025
After we moved to Nairobi in July I hardly read anything, save for one book on writing and a novel by David Benioff. Very little journalism, whether daily news or longform. Then my reading pace picked up again in September and October and I...
The Books I Read in 2024
In 2018 I began posting yearly lists of the books I read, along with a few sentences on what I thought about each of them. These were always among my favorite posts to write, partly because I like maintaining a tradition, but mostly because...
Idara at Eight
We were ten minutes from the ski lodge, near the fake stag on the outcrop pitched ever-so-slightly off-kilter, enough so that you would never mistake it for the real thing, not in fifty years. Idara asked to choose the music, so I passed my...
The Little Green Squirt Gun
Photo by Anna Shvets
A little over a year ago, when Oren was three, he went to a birthday party and came home with a gun.1 It was tiny and plastic and bright green, with an orange trigger and a little hole in the back for trickling in wate...
You Don't Deserve It
Gratitude is the key to a happy and fulfilled life, or so I hear repeatedly, from books, podcasts, magazines, and movies. But how do I do it, exactly? How do I make myself grateful?
I've kept gratitude journals and I send thank you cards....
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Math teacher and word writer living in Kenya.
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