Life
The other hours
Sleep, books, and the days that needed a quieter kind of attention.
Life · 2026-10-05
I tested 10 running shoes
Ten pairs from Amazon, scored out of ten. None of them cost a holiday.
Life · 2026-09-25
The supplements I repurchase
An inventory of what is actually taken. Not a prescription.
Life · 2026-09-24
The sleep download that works
People buy a voice for the last minutes of the day and feel cheated when it is not a priest. It is a file. I am going to be exact, because exact is kinder than
Life · 2026-09-23
For days that start too loud
The modern talent is to arrive at a Tuesday having already lived it, including the quarrel in the car that has not occurred. If this is familiar, you are not uniquely broken. You are
Life · 2026-09-21
3 books I couldn't put down
Politeness is how a bad book survives a train. These three were not survived. They took the evening, and I allowed
Life · 2024-01-01
The 5-second rule, on the washing-up
I will not retell her book. It is hers. What I took is a count backwards from five, and then the doing of the thing avoided. In this house the thing is often the washing-up. The method does not seem to mind the
Life · 2023-02-19
Sleep downloads, not therapy
The word suggests a pendulum and a request for one's secrets. What I bought was a file: a voice, ordinary speech, no theatre. I had been witty at the category's expense for years. Then I slept badly, and wit was not...
Life · 2023-01-15
How I get through January
The windows stream. The afternoons shrink. For years I took both as commentary. A machine and a tablet did more than the brooding, which I offer as a January morality without claiming it as
Life · 2020-04-19
What I used in lockdown
A shut door, and days with the edges rubbed away. I will not romanticise them. Here is what was actually reached
Life · 2019-11-17
10 minutes, phone in the other room
Ten timed minutes, the phone in another room, and nothing renamed.