No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: &quot;If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.&quot;<br> <br> On cultural perceptions of fantasy: &quot;The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?&quot;<br> <br> On breakfast: &quot;Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.&quot;<br> <br> Ursula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula's blog, <i>No Time to Spare </i>presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: &quot;How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.&quot;