Thoughts on cringe

A couple of months ago, a colleague was leaving my team so naturally added us all on LinkedIn and social media to keep in contact. One thing about my social media is that very sneakily in the bios or descriptions, there’s always a link to this blog, just in case it tempts a passerby or

I don’t care that much about being beautiful?

Somehow, this year I ended up in a conversation, entirely in Italian, where I was told I was beautiful and my eyes were the colour of a swimming pool. I replied, saying (in poor Italian) that usually I get told my eyes are grey. In any case, my eyes were definitely not the colour of

Coming full-circle

At various stages in life, such as the end of one year and the beginning of the next, we’re encouraged to reflect on our progress and look at the journey that brought us to where we are today. Some of us do this more than others, taking every new year, birthday, new job, new term

Existential Joy?!?!

For some reason, the philosophy department at my university thought it would be fitting to schedule the weekly ‘Existentialism’ lectures in first year for 9 am on a Monday morning. This nicely prepared me and most of the group to spend the entire week reflecting on the question of “what’s the point of life?” before

I’m Not A Podcast Person, But…

Early in 2021, a dear friend of mine told me that she had written into George Ezra’s podcast, and her email had been read out. I was vaguely aware of his ‘George Ezra and Friends’ podcast and yet to discover the ‘Phone a Friend’ podcast. So, despite my bad track record with podcasts, I thought

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