I lost something last night. Technically, I didn’t lose it at all; in fact, I lost my mind and did something utterly, utterly stupid and unlike me. Being stupid is very like me, but what I did is outside the usual realm of stupidity, which has tended to involve alcohol, loneliness and the proximity of [...]

Today, I have no identity. I have had to send my passport to the Home Office. Because I am soon(ish) to be married to a US citizen (boy, did that seem like a good idea at the time), I have to prove that I’m an EU citizen, resident in the UK. You’d think my years [...]

And so, I’m back. Not quite sure how I feel about that. The saddest moment of the days since I got back from running the ING New York Marathon (I did it!) was yesterday: I spent much of the early evening glancing at my watch – so much so that my fiancé asked me what [...]