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March 2024

What's my culture?
I don’t think that I am like most people. This thought came to me while reading Yakko’s recent piece, “There are trips and trips”. “Now, I don’t want to…
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My favourite month of the year
I really like March. It's my favourite month of the year. I realise that it's a peculiar fixation to have as I write this. Do people have favourite…
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PhD Blues and Good Enough is Okay
“I’d love to write more consistently but I usually cannot find the time”, I was complaining to an editor about not being able to write as much as I…
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Second Degré
I was startled recently by a message that I received from a friend. “It's really hard to talk to you,” it said, out of the blue, “you don’t understand…
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February 2024

Puffer Jackets and a Champagne Promise
It was early January of this year, I was walking in downtown Marseille, going from bookstore to bookstore trying to find the next memoir to read. I had…
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Pania-Mania
This is a little story about languages
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Passacaglia for Staying Afloat
A stream of consciousness from an airport on loneliness, travel and maintaining relationships
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January 2024

December 2023

And then everyone clapped
The setting is Christmas from last year. I was celebrating it for the first time in France. A friend of mine had invited me to his place in the…
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The town where no one cared
TW: mentions of death and a corpse
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