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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Writing for my Mother (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone

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    Last year I started to write about my late mum’s decline into Alzheimer’s, using the diaries and notebooks we both kept.It is a daunting project. These are very personal notes: insights into my mother’s thoughts, fears, struggles and hopes. But it feels very necessary. Necessary so that I can try to convey to others how someone with Alzheimer’s feels as they slide inexorably away. Necessary so that I can try to understand her.But my god it’s been emotional. I found it far more difficult than I h

  2. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Of Yellow Leaves and Gossamer (opens the original)

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    Way back in August, around the middle of the month after a day or two of drizzle and overcast skies, my body slipped into autumn. I felt it; it came with a sensation like a door seal opening: schuuulp. In my world it was now autumn and I felt so relieved.<sour

  3. Issue · Jul 25, 2026

    Fountain Pens (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    It’s not a big collection, not by real aficionados’ standards, numbering in the 20s or so. Barely a collection at all. I’m not obsessed, honest, but I do like a fountain pen.<img alt="a close up of a f

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