Julia of all Trades Master of None

 I can’t remember how old I was when I looked up the word aphorism in the dictionary and wondered why it wasn’t a word I knew, despite livin...

 “But, the world”, I wrote when I started blogging again. The fact that we are still living in ‘interesting times’ should have driven me to ...

 “It’s the hill I’m prepared to die on,” I tell people when they insist that AI is brilliant. “I can write. I don’t need a computer to do it...

 My family are still laughing at a question at a book quiz we went to a few years ago. The round was on famous quotes. Book quizzes are alwa...

 Yes, it’s true. I know how to spend my free time. I have begun reading through the Epstein files that have been released and, obviously, I ...

How lucky am I to have a week off? Think of the poor parents of the children I teach who get no time off from their kids. How awful!  A pare...

 Whenever I walk into a room a disembodied voice says, “Always keep away from children.” It has become a running joke because other washing ...