Looking out of my window at the Reichenbach Falls and the mountains above it comes…
travel
Making your life an epic adventure with The Gutsy Girl by Caroline Paul
I read The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure by Caroline Paul when…
Haruki Murakami on travelling light (and just getting up and going)
When I’m travelling, I like to read Haruki Murakami. I like the clean writing style…
“A hunter knows when to quiet his mind”: Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova, and a defence of solitude
I wrote in my last article about the classical scholar Edith Hamilton, who wrote of Aeschylus:…
Kierkegaard on how “if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right”
Unfinished sketch of Kierkegaard by his cousin Niels Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840 I finished my undergraduate…
A Year Abroad in Books (Alongside Homesickness and Coming Home)
Some of you may know that from August 2013 I was in Spain, working in…