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For more than twenty years, since I left London for the first time back in 2003, I’ve had “start an internet radio station” on my to-do list. The shape of that to-do list – paper or digital, app or freeform – has changed many times since then. But that item has remained, carried over from year to year. An internet radio station. Focused on jazz music. Broadcasting around the ...


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Months confuse me. For starters, they aren’t all the same length. And they don’t start on the same day of the week. They come at us in chaotically unpredictable ways. Commit to doing something once a month and you’re locked into a pattern that changes every few weeks.

One of my favourite regular commitments is a memoir writers’ group. At first, we agreed to meet once a...


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The philosopher Martin Heidegger would often retreat to a small, three-roomed ski hut in the Black Forest, at an elevation of 1150 m, to do his work. In his essay Why Do I Stay in the Provinces?, Heidegger paints a vivid picture of what it was like to work in that remote location.

“On a deep winter’s night when a wild, pounding snowstorm rages around the cabin and veil...


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For a long time I couldn’t even imagine 2026. I was so stuck in the day-to-day routines and responsibilities of 2025. So I just kept making notes about what I hoped might make the coming year different.

A lot of those notes involved deleting things. Unfulfilled dreams...


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This year broke me. In so many ways. I was lost in a cloud. Bumping up against unknown obstacles. All I could see was my next step. And I so lived, day to day, for months. I’m ending 2025 feeling a mix of calm and courage. But it took a lot to get here. And it will take even longer to understand how this year has changed me.

The broad brushstrokes are that I moved from...


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