Deaf with a dI sometimes think that being someone who is very much on the spectrum of deafness and not Deaf with a D, might actually be harder to…Jun 2, 2024Jun 2, 2024
And one more thing…Thanks to needing a hip replacement earlier in the year, I found myself in a position where I reached my out-of-pocket max (no more paying…Sep 2, 2023Sep 2, 2023
More Obsessions in 2023It’s been a very long time since I wrote anything here, but I was starting to write Fair Warning (now on Substack, please sign up!) and I…Jan 22, 20232Jan 22, 20232
So long, goodbye 2021I really went into 2021 thinking that it couldn’t get any worse and somehow I had a worse year than 2020. I feel like my life shrank…Dec 31, 2021Dec 31, 2021
The loss of FriendsI never really liked Friends. I watched it occasionally when there was nothing else on TV, but for some reason last year I decided I would…Jun 21, 2020Jun 21, 2020
How to help a deaf colleague deal better at workI’ve written on here before about what it’s like to be a deaf person in a newsroom, but it occurred to me that it might be helpful to…Feb 2, 2020Feb 2, 2020
Obsessions #5It’s been a long while since I wrote one of these! I had a really weird slow-motion mental breakdown culminating in two or three months…Oct 10, 2019Oct 10, 2019
Eastern Europe 2019: The Rabies ScareI suppose I ought to start by saying that there are two things about me that I have come to realise are pretty reliable:Oct 5, 2019Oct 5, 2019
The first month of a new routineI haven’t written regularly because, frankly, it would be incredibly boring for me to detail all of my runs (which do the exact same…Sep 6, 2019Sep 6, 2019