What It Is Like to Travel With Type 1 Diabetes
SOMETIMES PEOPLE TRAVEL to get away from things they’ve grown tired of: the daily routine, a bad relationship, control-freak parents, the weather back home….
Lifestyle
Only Fools Runaway : How backpacking in Vietnam changed my world view.
After months of sacrificial savings and scouring every pant pocket for loose coins, I finally found myself staring outside an airplane window listening to…
How To Customize Your Stuff with Stickers and Decals
The increasing trend of customization has given rise to many products that are specially designed to give your stuff a personal touch. People are…
MANDEPRESSION
I used to joke that only men with depression were attracted to me, mainly because that’s the only experience I have ever had with…
TYPEWRITERS AND TECH: THE CHRISTMAS TREE STORY
Typewriters to Tech – Life in the slower lane Well, it’s December now so I’m allowed to mention the C-word, right? (No, not THAT…
TYPEWRITERS AND TECH: LIFE IN THE SLOWER LANE
Living more slowly in this whirlwind of a society isn’t the easiest choice in the world. For me it was a deliberate decision, a…
TYPEWRITERS AND TECH: WINTER TREATS
Simple, cosy, low-cost winter evenings… Though we’re past the winter solstice and the days are starting (slowly) to get longer, in my hemisphere we’ve…
BEAUTIFUL YOUNG MINDS: INSIDE THE WORLD OF A MATHS GENIUS
In September 2012, Louis Theroux – one of my favourite journalists and documentary makers – wrote a post on his website of his top…
FLASHING LIGHTS
There are moments in life that become a scar. Moments of tragedy that do not leave you. Moments that have the ability to alter…
GOOD DAYS
I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days… before you’ve actually left them – Andy Bernard. Five…