My daughter complained of monsters in her closet – at night she could hear a hum in the wall
It started in September 2023, when my daughter Saylor was three years old. She began having trouble sleepin…
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‘Enough of this me me me’: Blake Morrison on memoir in the age of oversharing ⊖
From sad-fishing on Facebook to sensational Substack revelations – today’s readers don’t have to look far for confessional writing. Is this the end of autobiography?
Every day I meet strangers who sha…
11 days ago
Experience: I climbed the tallest tropical tree in the world ⊕
It was a slow ascent: I needed to check for wasps, snakes and scorpions
I was born in Tawau, a Malaysian city on the island of Borneo, and grew up around logging camps – my dad worked in the industry.…
18 days ago
Experience: I’ve spent decades collecting over 260 postboxes ⊕
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It started with an obscure railway postbox that had been thrown in a skip – now my museum has pieces from Scotland, Ireland and Hong Kong
Back in 1994, I went to north Wales to see the miniature steam…
25 days ago
Experience: I’ve been on more than 2,000 hot-air balloon flights in 124 countries ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
I loved Tanzania – we flew over hungry lions in a national park
I can still remember my first flight, in 2002. It was magical. I was working as a tour guide in Myanmar. I met a British balloon pilot c…
32 days ago
Experience: I suffered terrible burns as a child – then became a firefighter ⊖⊖
I was sick and tired of the world treating me like a victim, so I decided to flip the narrative. At 25, I tried out for my local volunteer fire academy
When I was six years old, my entire body went up…
39 days ago
Experience: I lost my arm – now I’m one of the fastest drummers in the world ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
One afternoon, I set up my kit and taped a drumstick to my amputated arm
The transformer exploded a few feet from where I was standing. One moment I was on the roof of a restaurant kitchen in Atlanta…
46 days ago
Experience: my record company replaced me with an ‘impostor’ ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Kendrick Lamar has sampled my track. I’d love to ask him if he knows my story
Growing up in North Miami Beach in the 1980s was a lot of fun. We might not have had TikTok, but we weren’t bored: we woul…
53 days ago
Experience: I’m the last traditional clog maker in England ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
I cut small trees around Offa’s Dyke, then shape the wood by hand
I never wanted to be part of an unsustainable society. I’ve always tried to live as peaceful a life as I can, outside the big cities.…
55 days ago
U2: Days of Ash review – six new tracks reaffirm the band as a vital political voice ⊕
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On their first collection of new songs since 2017, the quartet have a crispness that has been lacking in their 21st-century material, as they nimbly react to shocking news stories
• News: Bono…