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A Belated Love Letter to April
Seven Aprils ago, my first son was born.
A Love Letter to Bathing in the Dark
We live in overstimulated times, walking blindly through life staring at screens and using every moment of downtime to catch up on unending content.
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Starting Over
A new year's promise
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.
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.
A Love Letter to Motels
There's no place like home, but there's no place like a motel either.
A Love Letter to Citrus Fruits
Sometimes, winter feels like a film shot on pale, desaturated stock.
A Love Letter to the Desert
In Baja California, I stumbled sleepily from an overnight bus as the sun rose over my first desert, silver in the morning light and white hot within the…
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 the First Bright Mornings
When I wake on endless rat-grey London mornings with only the feeblest excuse for light leaking through the gap in the curtains, nothing feels worth…
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…
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