I suffered period poverty. Here’s what it was like
Poverty is a strange thing. As a child, I thought of Oliver Twist or the sooty cheeks of a chimney sweep whenever I happened to … Read more
Money
The bootstrapping myth
My Kindle clippings are a huge great mess of things: information I want to keep, scraps of prose that make me weep, and words I’ve … Read more
Let’s stop lying about class diversity
My most embarrassing work-related mistake happened not long after graduation. While working on a presentation with eminent epidemiologist Professor Nicholas Wald, I paused on an … Read more
Late expectations
A female friend recently tweeted the following: ‘Work colleague has just come back fuming from a first date where they went dutch. Should the man … Read more
So how much do you earn?
I mentioned in a recent post that I would be talking a little more about how it isn’t easy making a living as a writer. … Read more