
I Worried about the Change
Stories repeated so many times, they were accepted as true: critical thought suspended. They would be wonderful, isolated. Perfect and...

Where I Find Myself
We spend so much time at the call of others. Unspeaking extras in scripted chase scenes to work, duties, obligations. Still, we...

Ugliness
I had to get it out, and the bile burned as it crept up. Each image more crass than the next. I shamed myself in revelling in this. This...

Brexit Times Ten
As an American, I struggle to view London as modern. The Great Fire destroyed medieval squalor, then rebuilt on the same narrow, winding...

Error and Trial
The extraordinary hides in the daily scene. The Masters start with the line of a figure or the sweep of a branch, tree, charcoal across...

Week Begins as It Ends
Tired when we spoke; then chaos on the Tube, as people sucked down their second wind in the tight space. Ready to burst up and out into a...