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Dirty miracles of the lost and found There’s a unique form of frustration reserved for when you misplace something that you are adamant should be there. The scenario which confounds me the most is that of the disappearing stationery: a pencil or eraser falls from my desk, lands at

🎙️Today: A wee preamble about the universe, the latest podcast featuring notes from a small house, plus: has all the life already been lived? Your own universe When you hear the word “universe” what comes to mind? The dominant definition refers to the infinite expanse of outer space, to everything:

📚Editorial note: I’ve use “diary” and “journal” interchangeably here. Both are the end result of a hopeful person scribbling down the events of one day so that someone may look back with interest on a future day. King of the journal David Sedaris is king of the journal. I’

Crawling to the finish line Today’s issue is about TARDINESS, and examines the question: How late is too late? I’m not talking so much about lateness to an event or meeting, but to cultural milestones or phenomena: appreciating Nirvana, reading Harry Potter, or – dare I say it, as

The average story I’ve clocked up nearly 100,000 minutes reading stories to my children. Nearly a decade of bedtime stories. Well enough reading hours to be able to predict, within the first page or so, the style and theme of almost any kids’ book. I regret to inform

Everything you could hope to say Last week I wrote about “Eugene”, who told a room of writing hopefuls on a university course: “Everything you could hope to say has already been said.” Eugene probably didn’t mean for this to become a demotivational mantra – he and the university needed