God, Ozempic, Chat GPT – this human needs a handrail
If God had a name what would it be?And would you call it to his face?If you were faced with Him in all His gloryWhat would you ask if you had just one question? I’d ask him why I was born in an age of too much choice, that’s for sure. Why wasn’t I born […]
Life dumping you like a wave in north east Ibiza
I really want to write something profound this week. I feel a strong blog might reflect the acute awakenings that only a great family holiday in Ibiza can provoke. I don’t like that first sentence, I’ve been back over it so many times, and I can’t get anywhere with it so I’m leaving it to […]
Art, exposure work, and finding another voice
I still have writer’s block but I can feel I’m becoming unstuck. I started the intro to my book again last night, writing a spin off of Romeo and Juliet. I am going to see a performance with Superman (Tom Holland) playing the man in question next month, so I am sure I will be […]
Achievement and OCD dogma
I felt low and listless yesterday after the buzziest of bank holiday Monday nights. A friend and I went to see John Vaillant and Colm Tóibín speak at the Cambridge Literary Festival, hosted at The Cambridge Union. I was really heading to the event to see Colm Tóibín, who is a great literary hero of […]
Reassurance – an unquenchable thirst
Ultimately, we are not reassurable – so said my brilliant therapist who, alongside the right medication, helped me recover from OCD. Well, I say recover, I still get anxious, but she helped me come to terms with it – and when I say ‘it,’ I mean this concept of not being able to be certain […]