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Freelance indexer in Porto

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2025

November

  • The case for a slower morning
  • What I spend in a month in Porto

September

  • Thirty-one things in my kitchen
  • On owning one good coat

August

  • The two-hour rule for admin
  • Why I stopped keeping a to-do list

May

  • Cooking the same four meals
  • A quiet argument for the landline
  • Freelancing without a pipeline
  • The cost of a thing you already own

April

  • Crossing into Albania by land, again

March

  • Night coaches I have survived
  • The ferry timetable that does not exist
  • Three weeks without a flight

January

  • What I actually carry

2024

December

  • Getting lost in Belgrade on purpose
  • The border post that closed at four

November

  • Trains are worth the extra day

September

  • Notes from a very small island
  • How to arrive somewhere badly

August

  • Reading The Living Mountain a third time

July

  • On abandoning books at page ninety

June

  • Seeing Like a State, twenty pages a week
  • Six books about walking

April

  • The library card as a travel document
  • Marginalia I regret
  • A year of reading only what I own

February

  • Against the reading challenge

January

  • What rereading actually changes
  • Indexing taught me how to read
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