(A belated) Start the Week #5

Not much going on, but...

Dec 27, 2022

∙ Paid

As a rule I write these Start the Week posts on Mondays, but yesterday I wanted to write and publish the article called Bravery. If you read it then the reason for wanting to publish it yesterday as opposed to any other day will become obvious.

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

Bravery

My father died on the 26th of December, 1976. An incident “This should do it.” My father was responding to my mother’s growing exasperation with the two-year old me constantly getting under her feet in the kitchen. Dad was a handyman of sorts. There were drawers full of watch parts from watches he’d taken apart but not quite reassembled. If you say …

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I hope you had a nice Christmas. I spent Christmas day tweaking spreadsheets and messing about with visual basi…

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