Right. I've come to this island. It's called Hunter's Island. I was feeling adventurous after a long time of the same old same old. Also, I'm a forager and I wanted to see hunters. What the heck. How they live and all that. I just like to …

A wise man left written on the back of a receipt that there are three things you simply cannot do in life. One is to get a waiter to see you before he decides to do so. Another is to defraud the phone company - if anyone is going to defrau…

Matt taught me the secret to love the damp, dark English winters. He's a calm, reliable guy, an inveterate optimist with a toddler with ringlets. Before getting married, he asked me to give him a hand with the groom's speech and I managed …

It was the first time I had fallen asleep after my dad died. Right before I woke up there was this split second when you can't remember much and you don't know where you are. And then everything came to me, like a concrete plank. The world…

I have this habit of being hungry before I eat. No merit: it's an automatic habit. I, like my father, eat whatever is there. Leftovers, burnt edges, rotten bananas. I cut what's rotten, I eat the rest. No merit: that's what he taught me to…

Yesterday, I swam for the first time this year. When I got in, the water was freezing and that was to be expected. The news is that for once I didn't mind the cold. You heard me well. I dealt with the cold like I deal with thoughts nowaday…

Two and a half thousand years ago, a man frowned up at the stars. So absorbed was he that the well under his feet went unnoticed. Needless to say, he fell in. A peasant began to laugh. The man turned to her and shrugged. ‘I worry more abou…

I have this bad habit of searching for meaning. I go to the dictionary looking for trouble in simple words, words I use daily, only to see if they are defined in ways that make me feel differently. Not sure why I need to do that. I wasn't …

I have a friend. She's a control freak. You don't get the vibe right away cause she looks a bit untidy, you know what I mean? But yeah, you can see that pattern in her. Once I went to her place and everything was just kept away, like I too…

You close your eyes and see two families of hedgehogs in an open field. The weather is not brilliant. The members of one family get together to maintain the warmth of their bodies. The other family has a different strategy: they also gathe…