Essays and Poems

I occasionally write more‑or‑less silly poems and more‑or‑less serious essays.

Essays

Poems

Nuts

I wrote this to complete the structure of my book, Lifehacks, and it turned out to be the most popular

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War and Peace

The third of three essays I wrote in Chile 2023 to clarify my thoughts. I think patriotism was and will be the last unquestionable faith whose validity I have

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The Coconut

Zoe asked me for a coconut poem. I wrote the first verse and she seemed happy with that. But then my mind wandered back to the wretched experiences

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Nuts

I wrote this to complete the structure of my book, Lifehacks, and it turned out to be the most popular poem in the whole thing..

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The Sink Plunger

March 2020: The girls and I were in a camper van in Sicily. Ania was on a cross country cycle ride with a group of bloggers. One day later Italy

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