Being human
and life's little mysteries

This is…. My new best friend. It’s my second visit to A+E in less than a week. Based on this, and a handful of other recent visits to...

Since I was three years old, I’ve been poked and prodded by strangers more times than I can count, or even remember. Hundreds of blood...

Monday, October 10th was World Mental Health Day. The stigma around mental health, its causes and treatments, and how the stigma itself...

March, 2020. By the time Covid broke out, I had stopped commuting into London on a weekly basis for work. After four months, it had...

So, this morning while taking my son to school I had a sort of unbelievable realisation. I’m half Lithuanian! Growing up as American, my...

Think of a tree or any plant or animal. The soft spot is where the growth happens. In nature, growth always happens at the soft spot. A...

Morning view from kitchen. As The leaves have fallen off this statuesque beech tree, so too I’ve been going through my own state of...