From Tolstoyan Russia to the Mongolian steppe and summers on the Gulf of Finland… here…
persevering through hardship
8 books about courage to help us craft and change our worlds
Change can be fast and slow. Lately it has felt like the world has changed…
Cutting for Stone is a book I should have read years ago
How had I not read Cutting for Stone before? From Ethiopia to New York, Abraham…
Educated by Tara Westover and how learning can change the course of a life
How do I start talking about Educated by Tara Westover? I’ll try with this: I…
I Found My Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice: wild swimming, coping, and finding your people
I tend to read more slowly now than when I was younger, usually taking a…
“Life – her life – depended on self-discipline”: Reading Elephant Moon by John Sweeney to rediscover perseverance and wonder
I don’t think anyone’s immune from the doldrums. The same goes for loneliness. Just recently,…