9 essays
How writing became a way to move forward, not just reflect.
I built a Type 1 Diabetes simulation game to explain my condition to friends. In making it realistic, I discovered just how hard manual management is - and why the pump I'm getting next month might change everything.
A grab-bag of connected ideas over the summer break - reading Project Hail Mary, making eclipses in Blender, witnessing totality at Niagara Falls, and rediscovering the math I thought I knew.
I have 6,000 travel video clips sitting on a hard drive. To turn them into video essays, I need to know what's actually usable - which clips are tripod-steady,...
You can't wing it with Type 1 diabetes and coeliac. You also can't control it. An interactive essay about the mental load — and appreciating when against all odds it starts to lift.
At 28, I don’t encounter novelty the way I once did. In my early twenties, everything seemed new — ideas, places, adventures. Now the stream feels thinner....
When I first got diagnosed with coeliac disease, it came off the back of years of chronic health issues. Since I was 18, I'd struggled with psoriasis —...
Friction gives you the traction to run, and the grip to stop. Without it, you spin in place or drift off course. I’ve come to see that friction isn’t just...
Living with chronic illness isn’t always what people imagine. It’s not always constant pain or obvious disability. Sometimes, it’s just… friction. Quiet,...