My ageing hands: Finding the delight in decline
Where is the delight in transitional states? What’s good about change, specifically ageing? Knowing that decay, deterioration and decline
Why write: Let the practice be a rebellion against the things that hold you back
Too much of our educational and cultural conditioning imposes the oppressive and stultifying idea that everything has to mean something
Reading, not writing
What happens when we listen to the words of others when they mingle with our own? Thoughts on the nature of exchange between reader and writer, and the neurotic entanglement of expectations
Migration and the quest for freedom
How much does the past matter? How many questions do any of us have the right to ask of those
Perfectly imperfect
The trouble with words, the escapable trap of wanting things to be other than they are, and the liberation of middle age
On doing hard things & feeling our feelings
I love second hand books. I love all books in fact. But there's something uniquely special about a
