The Wanderers
The last few days, catching up with mum and dad, Holly, I’ve been thinking. What was the actual point of going to Sicily again, just six months after we left?…
But is it true?
How prescient @markmanson I read his newsletter today (always excellent, go sign up to it and this quote stuck with me because, earlier, I’d said to Jeff, “I’m so tired.”…
23 Days, Boredom and 60s Italian Pop Music
“Italy without Sicily leaves no image in the spirit. It is in Sicily that the key to everything is found. The purity of the contours, the softness of everything, the…
Are we there yet? And newsletters are the new podcasts that we pay for.
I’m not embarassed to say that I am Substack fan. Not that I’m the “get the logo tattooed on my body” type of fan. But I am happy to say…
Nothing is true
I read Seth’s blog this morning with trepidation. If anything, indeed everything, can be faked, can we believe anything we see unless we are seeing it in person, with our…
Too much time
What happens when you have too much time on your hands? You may say, lucky you. And you could be right. I used to be busy busy busy but I…
35 Days. I don’t want to jinx it.
But I am really starting to think, with 35 days to go, that our trip to Sicily is going to go one of two ways. I like to call this…
Stop telling us not to talk about Madonna’s face – And why Madonna is the biggest misogynist of all.
And why you are, too, if you say I can’t or shouldn’t comment on her face. In the last few years, there’s been this line: “Women who criticise other women…
AI to the rescue?
I’ve been reading a lot about AI lately, and it’s make me a little itchy. There is no doubt that if you make a living out of your art –…
Numbers are not my thing
40 days If I’m counting down greedily now, will I suck them down just as greedily later?