The Art of Work

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On instant gratification and shower screens
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Speaking truth, sipping wine and finding joy
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Outside, the sky is not blue
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Will there be war in Europe? Will I catch Covid just before my book launch? And why didn’t I bother to lose my pandemic pounds? These are some of the…
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Last week, after eighteen days of Dry January, I cracked. I marched to the fridge, found a bottle of Sancerre with that lovely mist that shows it’s…
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When my partner was released from his Covid cage, after two clear lateral flow tests and nine days of isolation, we both sighed with relief. I cooked…
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I had a lovely Christmas, thank you. Well, I had a lovely Christmas Day. I ate, I drank, I gazed lovingly at the pile of books I had bought my partner…
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” That’s the title of a book by Joan Didion and also, perhaps, the nearest she got to a world view. Today…
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I was on my way to the hospital for a cancer check when I saw something on Twitter that made me cry. I don’t often cry about Twitter. I do sometimes get…
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This is The Art of Work , a newsletter about how we can find some fulfilment as we pay the bills.
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