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A review of recent Sylvia Plath events 25th June - Waterstone's Hampstead (London) Heather Clark (author of Red Comet) and Helen Bain (author of The Daffodil Days). Highlights: What is the difference between a biographer and a historical fiction writer? Helen used historical fiction to go where a biographer could not - moments we have... Continue Reading →
Sequel to What’s In My Pencil Case. THE BAG My King Jim Carchette in beige is the single item I get the most compliments on, and from an astounding array of people. I always wanted to be a briefcase person, and now I have found the perfect briefcase / handbag for me. I'm torn between... Continue Reading →
The club sucks but so does staying in forever. As a teenager, one of my friends threw a murder mystery party annually for her birthday. We’d be assigned characters and all get together in costume, eat food, and play pretend. Those days were always delightful, and I’m gratified to see that halfway across the world... Continue Reading →
Travelogues from the UK.
Who do you pray to? According to Genesis 1:27, God made us in his image. In 1977, Genesis wrote "I was feeling part of the scenery / I walked right out of the machinery".[1] These are both powerful statements which speak to how and why we worship what we do: we find the numinous in... Continue Reading →
A short post exploring the world outside my window... and by 'outside my window' I mean 'I can't see this because it's outside my field of vision, let's get a new window.' Kanazawa I fell in love with Kanazawa when I visited it in 2024. Apparently since then it has become famous as 'unspoilt Kyoto',... Continue Reading →
EDC - stationery edition THE CASE I am not a huge believer in pencil cases: I love things that come in cute tins, boxes, pouches etc, and so typically I reappropriate those types of things whenever I need to store anything. My old pencil case was a box that some Taylor Swift merch came in,... Continue Reading →
You can do better than mediocrity.
The purpose of this article is only to tell you I'm not a robot, but it's maybe made me feel worse? I write this on behalf of my secretive account, to let you know I am not AI and do not use AI for so much as prompts or punch-ups for articles. If anything, my... Continue Reading →
I had an epiphany recently: this *gestures* is all noise. I've been confusing it for influence, ideas, and insight, but I am getting nothing from it, and neither are you.
