2020 Playlist and reading list
That ‘Everyone’s free to wear sunscreen’ thing by Baz Luhrmann (actually an essay by Mary Schmich) has a line in it about how you shouldn’t worry, because the…
Do the work
You don’t have to travel to widen your knowledge of human experience. You can read. It’s cheap (and even free if you have a library card). Fellow white…
A firm reminder
I think about China almost every night. I have for a long time, and not at all for the reasons a lot of other people are thinking about…
Mestia
Before you read on, a bit of a preface and a mild content warning. I started writing this way back on the day it actually happened. I picked…
Pig roast
At the start of last year I decided I wanted a really big food challenge. Like bigger than anything else I’d done. I think Thanksgiving for 19 people…
Hills
If you had told me 15 years ago, as I stood on the side of an English hill inside a particularly uncomfortable cloud of driving rain with a…
2019 Playlist and reading list
The majority of the music on this list isn’t even new, but then this was always more about the music that framed my particular year than the music…
Looking directly at the world
I often listen to podcasts while I’m walking to and from places. Edinburgh is a small city and I can walk just about anywhere I need to in…
2018 Playlist (and books this time too)
He’s made of bones, he’s made of blood
He’s made of flesh, he’s made of love
He’s made of you, he’s made of me
Unity
Hebrides
It took me six months to go away for a full week this year, which is quite out of character. I don’t know what happened. Being on contract.…