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Walking the Same Street in Different Weather

I have been walking this street the major part of my life. It is not remarkable, as places gain prominence by postcards or accolades. Its...

Goodbye to the Teachers' House

Most people don’t move into a house they’ve never seen. If not a tour, then at least some photos, but I had neither. It was...

Ghana: Finding My People

For years, I nurtured dreams of visiting Africa. No single country anchored those fantasies. Just being on the continent seemed enough. In my third year...

Alarmed

After the fourth airport in consecutive Scandinavian countries shunted me through a door labelled Nothing to Declare, I decided I couldn’t stay silent any longer,...

Snapshot City

The weekend before I turned eighteen, you convinced me to go on a crime spree. Taking advantage of this last chance to be charged as...

Witch's Kiss

They say if you kiss a witch, you gain the ability to win the heart of anyone. I have been searching for a witch for...

Lost & Found: A Daring Work of Honesty and the Search for Meaning

As a rule, I get wary of travel or epiphany books, particularly written by overrepresented groups: white, male, and of above-average means. The sudden revelations...

Désolée, Monsieur

“Maurice Groenberg? Je suis désolée, monsieur.” “Madame, s’il vous plaît. I’m certain my father lived here from 1924 to 1942. He was a well-known pianist,...

Remembering Shay Youngblood

In January 2023, I had the honour of being invited to participate in the inaugural Freedom Writers Retreat for Black Women Writers at Black-owned boutique...

A Cravat and a Handful of Mary Medals

I hadn’t picked up Tin Ujević—the famous Croatian poet—in years. But the week before I left for Paris, I pulled weeds from the stone chapel...

A Beautiful Village

The first time I visited Europe, I was travelling with my 12-year-old son, Nick. My husband had died six years earlier, and I wanted to...

Invasive Species

But enough about dead people. Don’t worry, I get it. You come to Paris and you want something fun, something colourful, not a pack of...

Splendour Built on Mud

“I hope Venice will recognise me,” I think, as my train pierces the silver lagoon and carries me across the bridge that hooks the fish-shaped...

How to Make Love to Fire

My wife will see the fire first. Or so she claims, whilst unfolding the picnic and arranging the cheese sandwiches and soft-boiled eggs. She asks...

Permeation

There are many moves with unlimited manoeuvres in chess. Before the opening gambit, it was known to us – Paula and me. Despite this, as...

In Company With Spiders

Most of the spiders living in the house that I share with my husband and our terrier are the small-bodied, long-legged variety. They station themselves...

Dreaming in Diaspora

I have always been a dream collector–someone who pays attention to dreams, writes them down, looks them up, and tries to interpret their messages. When...

Remarkable Trees: Biodiversity & Economic Botany

Following the UN’s International Day of the Forest on the 21st March, Julia Knights spoke to Tony Kirkham, one of the world’s leading experts on trees to learn more about...

Our Ailing Ecology Anthropomorphised

What destroys us is often unclear and obscure. Sickness works in mysterious ways. It takes time to manifest, sometimes years. Entropy advances in a roundabout...

Isolation in Iceland

Iceland in winter is the closest one can get to living in eternal night. This country is extraterrestrial; a stretch of solar landscape, rock formations,...