I write one of these every year. I read last year’s and was slightly amused how serious I sounded. But this is typical of me, I oscillate between thinking I take myself too seriously and not taking myself seriously enough.
I couldn’t fall sleep last night, so I thought of listening to a podcast. I don’t usually listen to podcasts because they make my head hurt if I listen to them through earphones. But I was alone, so I decided to play one through a speaker located far enough away from me…
Everyone makes up a story about their own lives, consciously or not. Some of us like to believe we are on a hero(ine)’s journey:
“In narratology and comparative…
I picked up Dark Matter on my kindle immediately after reading this post by Heath W. Black, and finished it within two days. Like Heath it had a…
Every year I write one of these. The annual anniversary of my day of birth has never really felt celebratory to me, but rather a period of sombre…