Category: Writing
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A love letter to the cars I have known
Read more: A love letter to the cars I have knownWith cars and with love, it’s complicated.
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Some Words We Lost Down the Back of the Couch
Read more: Some Words We Lost Down the Back of the CouchIf I could give one thing to America, it would be a gift basket of words it has forgotten it ever had.
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Hands at Ten and Two, How I Fell in Love with Bush Driving
Read more: Hands at Ten and Two, How I Fell in Love with Bush DrivingI’m a city girl. I love live music, good coffee and public transport. I don’t like driving in the city – there are too many people with too many destinations and too much else on their mind. In the country, it’s different. Though I have often traveled with my loved ones, driving is a solitary activity. It’s just…
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That awesome moment when your writing comes alive
Read more: That awesome moment when your writing comes aliveLast night, I spent 4 minutes writing a short piece of dialogue. Seconds later, an editor halfway across the world was reading it out on YouTube. Welcome to the awesome and surreal world of the digital writers’ festival.
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I’m OK, you’re OK
Read more: I’m OK, you’re OKOK is a very strange word with an even stranger history. How did it become such a giant in world trading vocabulary?
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Starting from scratch
Read more: Starting from scratchWhile I’d redeveloped a number of websites in my time, I’ve never started from nothing before I launched this site last August. This was my process.
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English, across the zees
Read more: English, across the zeesOh, that hurt. I have Americanized my website, swapping esses for zees, swapping licence for license and removing that all-important letter u from color.
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Everything you know about curry is wrong
Read more: Everything you know about curry is wrongFor most of us, the word curry is synonymous with Indian food. We think of them as hot and spicy, and we might recall some of our favorites – like chicken tikka masala. But almost everything we think we know about curry is wrong.
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Home is where the head is
Read more: Home is where the head isThey say home is where the heart is but what exactly makes a home? And what is the psychology of what happens to those of us who leave our home in the name of love, career or adventure?
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Please forgive me: A plea for secular mercy
Read more: Please forgive me: A plea for secular mercyWe may not agree on how much or what it should look like but I think we all know everyone deserves a bit of mercy. I wonder what makes us forgive each other, and where do we draw the line?
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