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📚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

Dreaming of a tiny officeThe horde First things first: The official collective noun options for rabbits are not very exciting. I have taken the liberty of using “horde”. Read on to understand why. Rabbits: infiniteThis is your brain, asking: Why should I? Such a tricksy synaptic machine, the brain. There’

This is not about Star Wars, unless you’re into that The chase is on to apprehend the greatest assemblage of names the galaxy has ever seen: Chewbacca. Luke Skywalker. Obi-Wan Kenobi. Han Solo. (Seriously, George, where did you dream up these names?) Their ship, the Millenium Falcon, is about