Love Letters to Life

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A Love Letter to My Bed
All summer I’m restless, looking for excuses to leave the house long into the evening. Then October comes, the sky seems to sink below the tree line…
A Belated Love Letter to April
Seven Aprils ago, my first son was born. I went into hospital at the end of a long, heavy winter, and came out into a spring so bright and clear that we…
A Love Letter to the River
There’s a moment as you cross the Strand, waiting in the scrum of tourists and city workers as buses, taxis and bikes flow by, where, if you look up…
A Love Letter to Stepping Outside.
Last night, while my sons lay safe and warm against me, listening to their bedtime story, children their age in Mariupol listened, frozen and terrified…
A Love Letter to Home
It’s the beginning of March, and London is a dozen shades of grey fading into a sodden sky. The tubes are on strike, the trains are overcrowded, and the…
A Love Letter to the First Signs of Spring
February is the cruellest month - the new year is long gone, taking resolution and enthusiasm with it. The cosy darkness of early January, inviting…
A Love Letter to Motels
There's no place like home, but there's no place like a motel either. Home is a cocoon weaved from love and memories, but a motel is a blank canvas, a…
Love Letters to Life
On the places and pleasures that make life worth living.

Love Letters to Life

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