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Nov 24, 2019

Everything Boardgames Taught Me About Beating Anxiety

Everything Boardgames Taught Me About Beating Anxiety I’ve never thought about killing myself while playing a boardgame. I don’t know if you’ve ever played Caverna, but it’s a sprawling, baffling-looking game with hundreds of components — little wooden sheep, pigs, pumpkins, and acrylic rubies. You play families of dwarves slowly…

Board Games

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Everything Boardgames Taught Me About Beating Anxiety
Everything Boardgames Taught Me About Beating Anxiety

Apr 23, 2019

On Killing The Writer

On Killing The Writer It’s an odd, uncomfortable fact of the writing process that you can give a book your all – your absolute, no-holding-back, emergency-supplies-and-all best – and still produce something a bit shit. And sometimes you scribble something out on the back of a receipt while waiting for a change of flights…

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·Apr 17, 2019

Being a Father With Mental Health Problems Is Terrifying

I wrestle with two opposing desires: to hold my family close, and to protect them by pushing them away — Sometimes my writing predicts the future. Not grand sweeping societal changes or new technologies or the winner of the 3:15 at Newmarket. Little things in my own life. For example, in 2011 I put out my first poetry collection, Pub Stuntman. The title poem is about a crass, idiotic drunk…

Mental Health

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Being a Father With Mental Health Problems Is Terrifying
Being a Father With Mental Health Problems Is Terrifying
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