An excerpt ... I used to think of the spinal column as a toy xylophone, a rainbow of ascending notes, synonymous with the feeling of...

At the end of a final gluttonous Chinese food feed, which also marked the end of the last visit I had with my father in 2018, my best...

It all went according to plan, until a few days after the second celebration when I crumbled like a brittle wafer - actually the effect was