Aug 30, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
Let’s take a second to consider what we associate with the word practical. If we look for its etymology, we quickly run into notions like this: Practical: from the Greek practikos via Latin to the French practique and finally to English. Practical is to move from...
Dec 28, 2024 | Essays, Non-Fiction, Travel |
Minneapolis Aeronautic missionary of the silent majorities, I jump with cat-like tread from one airport to the other. Now it’s the blazing woods of New Hampshire, casting a fleeting reflection in the mirror of New England. Yesterday, it was the steepling gentleness of...
Apr 29, 2023 | Non-Fiction |
… the number of emails that you could, in principle, receive, is essentially infinite. But … the number of messages you’ll have time to read properly, reply to, or just make a considered decision to delete is strictly finite. So getting better at processing your email...
Oct 22, 2022 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
The political union of 1707 had been preceded by a natural one over 400 million years earlier. England was attached to a small continent called Avalonia, drifting northwards across the ocean. At the same time, several thousand kilometres away, Scotland was heading...
Feb 29, 2020 | Fiction, Poetry |
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the...
