Jake Russell5 days ago3 minHelp, AgainWay back in the summer (remember then? It was, genuinely, remarkably, somehow, a simpler time), I used this weekly piece to offer a free ...
Jake RussellJan 41 minReorient ForwardAs we reorient ourselves once more to face forward, looking up at 2021 as it forms before us, it may well feel daunting, it might’ve alre...
Jake RussellDec 28, 20202 minThank YouAs this year metaphorically mumbles, gurgles and grumbles its last words before finally succumbing to its inevitable passing, I’d like to...
Jake RussellDec 21, 20202 minStuck in The MudmasDid you ever play Stuck in The Mud when you were younger? It’s basically a game of tag. One player’s ‘it’ and everyone else scatters to e...
Jake RussellDec 14, 20205 minNot Every Crisis Is A FireOur instinct to help others in need, especially those we love, is a sign of our natural human (primal, even animalistic) drive. We see so...
Jake RussellDec 7, 20202 minDecember, You Confuse and Complete Me So here we are again then, December. And what a confusing old month it is. It’s a time of merry celebration and weary, northern-hemispher...
Jake RussellNov 30, 20202 minLife Is SmallI’ve come to believe that life is small. The big, revealing answers to the grand questions of existence, of purpose, of will, of fate, of...
Jake RussellNov 16, 20202 minRazor ThinWhat a strange thing it is to live, what a precarious endeavour. Because life is so razor thin. And we forget it is. We tend to look forw...
Jake RussellNov 9, 20201 minJust this todaySometimes everything has been said and there’s nothing more to add; doing so just expands the ever-swelling mass. And what for, really? I...
Jake RussellNov 2, 20202 minDog Shits.The streets in my part of town are old and narrow, tight stone passages just about wide enough for a single car to pass if pedestrians hu...
Jake RussellOct 26, 20202 minOpen Up AgainWhen you find yourself in a hole, and the hole seems deeper every day and the sides steeper in every way, when you keep on slipping towar...
Jake RussellOct 19, 20203 minWe Needn't Be A DickAbout 2 billion years ago there was a type of bacteria on the Earth’s surface, maybe in the oceans, maybe on land, I can’t remember. As i...
Jake RussellOct 12, 20203 minBitsThere was a period in our lives, my brother Joe and I, when every other Saturday we’d stay the night with our dad. It was from when I was...
Jake RussellOct 5, 20203 minLemon Sausage FishI was recently out at a restaurant for a friend’s birthday. There were about 10 of us pressed onto two benches either side of a picnic st...
Jake RussellSep 28, 20202 minChoose Honesty to Get A Better Bum*If morality was a group of muscles, then I wonder if honesty would be the glutes. These great big muscles in the bum have the potential t...
Jake RussellSep 21, 20202 minUnsettling for BetterThis move of mine to Mallorca has, so far, been a supremely unsettling affair, which is probably obvious, isn’t it? In the simplest of te...
Jake RussellSep 14, 20201 minCakeAs I write this, I’m sitting with my brother Joe having some cake and tea on the breeze tickled terrace of a right delightfully swanky ho...
Jake RussellSep 7, 20202 min144,000 AngelsHave you heard about the 144,000 angels? That isn’t the start to a joke. Apparently, there are 144,000 angels who exist for no other purp...
Jake RussellAug 31, 20202 minPacking AdventuresA happy Monday to you. Another short one this week, and the next few in all likelihood, as I pack my life in London into cardboard boxes ...
Jake RussellAug 24, 20201 minLet Up, Not DownMorning all, I’m writing a very short one today because it’s all I have time for this week and in doing so I notice the urge to give myse...