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Dec 28, 20221 min read

2022

If 2022 was a utensil it would be a fork. Full of promise and practicality and utility But undone by soup. If 2022 was a garment it would...

Dec 23, 20222 min read

Coffee?

“I’m sorry.” Two words, three syllables; simple enough really. Joe approached them carefully, distrustfully. He knew there was an...

Dec 22, 20221 min read

Amsterdam

Flat- Yet yearning to be tall. Veiny canals feed neat frontispieces leaning Shoulder to shoulder. Though twisted vines climb toward...

Dec 8, 20221 min read

The Lost Hour

James tried again. “Well, it’s like we skip an hour, and we go forward. So 8 in the morning is really 9.” “But why?” His 3-year-old son...

Dec 7, 20222 min read

Words and those who write them

I think there is a strange kind of comfort in words. Set out on a page they lie in orderly rows, like Lego bricks pieced together in the...

Dec 5, 20224 min read

Emma Raducanu

I wrote this piece shortly after Emma Raducanu won the US Open tennis tournament in September, 2019. As I watched Emma Raducanu storm her...