I am a bit obsessed with this jumper my partner knitted for me (her first), which is so insanely warm as to be almost beyond the laws of nature and has become my definition of “a coat”, even as UK temperatures slip below zero. It is one of the few things I will miss about winter when spring and summer blessedly arrive and the world once …
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored.
We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least c…