I write about attention, craft and the slow life.

Iris Calder is a writer based between a small town and a smaller desk. The Margin is where she keeps her essays — long, unhurried pieces on how we spend our days and why it's so hard to spend them well.

Before this she wrote for other people, on other people's schedules. This is the version with no editor, no deadline and no metrics — which is to say, the honest one.