Marginalia
Writing, Rambling
Plus ça change
I first started blogging in 2004. I was twenty years old, in my last year of college and had no idea what I was going to do once I grow up. Since then, I’ve lived in two countries, in three different cities, moved four apartments and now, five years later, I’m a student again and [...]
Every day at 3.30pm
The sun shines through the corner office and hits me in the eye. Sun worshipper that I am, I enjoy seeing its gold orange glow reflected off the modern steel and glass structure opposite the window, and I imagine briefly, that I am sunning myself on some tropical island.. And I wish I could exchange [...]
Of the small and sundry
There is a strange pleasure in the repetition of manual tasks. In the slicing of an apple for instance. The knife poised expectantly above the freshly washed skin. Leaping, almost, out of my hand in an eagerness to slice through the firm red fruit. Thick creamy slices edged in deep maroon. Or in the crispness [...]
Time ‘n Tide
This weekend as the clocks went back, I gained an hour. A precious gift on a chilly Sunday morning with two 1 AMs Instead of going back the entire hour at one go, like the rest of England and Europe (Yes, as someone who had to fill countless forms, shell out a 100 quid and [...]
This is simply the End of the Beginning
Isn’t it funny how an entire lifetime can be summed up in 7 cardboard boxes and a cup full of loose change?
