Publications 

I remember learning of the Roman Republic for the first time as a child and being utterly captivated by the knowledge, wholly novel to me at age five, that there had been entire civilizations that began and ended long before I stumbled into the world. In some ways, it was the mystique, the strange unknowableness that millennia bring, but that was not unique to Rome; I’d already become plenty obsessed with dinosaurs, and they have a lot more than mere millennia in that departm

There is something that has long felt unfair to me about the way things are ; it is the fact that the more comfortable you are with yourself, the easier it will be for you to connect to people. In some ways, for those of us who are on the shyer side, it almost feels like the universe is punishing you, like it’s all some divine humiliation: what you crave the most is being understood, but the very thing that you need to do to get that connection is to go against what you have

Little bee, good friend, hello! Do not mind me taking a seat in the grass as you climb through sprouts of lavender with your friends. I do hope I am not interrupting. I have someone I’m meeting here soon, but the weather is nice and you are here, so it is a good day to be waiting. It is pleasant to have found your company again. Indeed, indeed, I should let you get back to that, but I'm really sorry, I can't help myself. I just have to talk to you right now. There are so many

Why hasn't modern technology realised Willy Wonka food science yet? Timothée Chalamet in the Wonka movie proves you can’t get away with everything just because you’re super hot. This, in my circle, was the initial point of discourse surrounding the new Wonka movie. I feel particularly passionate about this topic as a long-time Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fan. To me, besides the more superficial Chalamet discus- sion, the movie also lacked a certain whimsy surrounding ca