• The Night I Met Johannes Anyuru

    Erol and I failed to get into the local chess club that evening. The code didn’t work, the door wouldn’t open, the lights were off. It was bizarrely dark, even though the woman I had sung Green, Green Grass of Home with the night before, at the performance…

  • Seven Easy Pieces

    Yet another year of raw, poetic folk narratives, as Tidal put it. I’m sharing a couple of marvellous, mostly melancholic music pearls that stayed with me through 2025 — many of them very old ones. 1. Lean Year — The Trouble With Being WarmAnother year with Lean Year’s…

  • Lost in Awakening

    I dreamt of us talking, Katarina.Mostly you were speaking, and I was listening.I dreamt of telling you autumn was heregolden and devastating.Autumn brought its truth, and it was notgentle when it saidchildren no longer needed me.You smiled and shrugged your shoulders.We must reinvent life, you saidand it must…