pbA vibrant new translation of Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, a pointed reminder to make the most of a precious asset our timeb pWho doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life How can we make the most of our time on earth In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger offered one of the most famous answers to that question in his essay, On the Shortness of Life--a work that has more to teach us today than ever before. In iHow to Have a Lifei, James Romm presents a vibrant new translation of Seneca's brilliant essay, plus two Senecan letters on the same theme, complete with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction. pWith devastating satiric wit, skillfully captured in this translation, Seneca lampoons the ways we squander our time and fail to realize how precious it is. We don't allow people to steal our money, yet we allow them to plunder our time, or else we g