Diagnosed with ADHD at forty-four, mid-house-move, surrounded by doom boxes. I thought a label would make me feel less broken; instead it handed me a torch and showed me every crack. An honest, untidy account, for anyone who is curiouse or whose head works the same way.
In my life, I’ve lost a lot of people. Some I never met because they died before I was born. My mother rarely spoke about her own mother, who also died young, but even as a child I sensed the outline of her absence. The kind of hole that doesn’t …
A tiny exploration of identity and how it feels to change once name – Follow-up to “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” from October 2021.
Back in the early 2000s, before social media made everyone a reviewer and AI could transcribe your audio for you (hi Jarvis), I was breathing and dreaming in rock and metal, writing for platforms like Powermetal.de, German Rock Magazine, Ice-Vajal.com, and a few others. Most of it was unpaid, chaotic, …
Ching Shih – The Pirate Queen by Nicky
From Brothel to Battleships: The Woman Who Ruled the South China Sea
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She captured what others couldn’t see—a photograph that unraveled the secret of life.
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