Tomorrow is my birthday. I’ve spent the last two days working on PhD proposals and therefore thinking a lot about what form the next three years of my life could take, but now seems like a good time to take a brief glance back at the last twelve months. Academia Having elected to pursue my [...] Read more – ‘End of Year Review’.
Do you remember that scene in Pulp Fiction where Christopher Walken tells the young Butch Coolidge the history of his grandfather’s gold watch? I had my own, less graphic version of that scene last week when my father passed on to me a gold watch which has belonged to him and to his father. It’s [...] Read more – ‘The Gold Watch’.
