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Beyond a joke

The audio for “Beyond a joke” is featured in this episode ☝️ of the Without a hitch podcastThe third episode of a trilogy of hitchhiking stories Before we started dancing for rides, we just stood there holding a big cardboard sign with SOUTH, PLEASE sketched on it. We were hitchhiking from

Giddy heights

A short tall man, Bill Murray, some elastic stick people and an intrusion of Japanese cockroaches A short tall man I’m a short tall man. A fraction shy of six foot three, my head sometimes brushes low ceilings or doorways. I may have to stoop to get under low

Perceptions: Mouse vs mouse

My wife and I perceive mice differently. I see the wee field mouse on the left. She sees the super poisonous rodent demon on the right. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. I certainly have more weaknesses than her (I won't list them here; I'm

Spaced out

Have you even seen a murmuration? A huge mass of starlings synchronising their movements as an enigmatic, contorting organism. It’s a graceful feat of mass cooperation, each bird turning and moving in time with the next. The starling shares its personal space with strangers well. I wonder if animals

Safety and a sandpit

A cigarette was never far from her mouth and she was fastidious with the ash. Her puffy, dark hair fell over one eye and she had a habit of pulling her legs against her chest so she could disappear into her jersey. “Is R-A-P-E a word?” I asked, as I

My kinda cuppa

Some of us prefer coffee, others tea. What does our choice of brew say about us? Nineteenth-century French novelist Honoré de Balzac reputedly drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day towards the end of his (short) life. He sometimes had to eat dry coffee grounds to get his

School’s out forever

An audio version of “School’s out forever” is featured in this episode ☝️ of the Without a hitch podcastLeaving high school was hard. Leaving high school again was even harder. I was terrified the first time I left high school. The rules and routines of school held me in suspension