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the weather is changing and we'll soon be moving on, but we're savouring each day as it comes! Steepshot | IPFS | Google Play

I'm beginning a series of brief memoir posts, to share writing I've never posted elsewhere and in the hopes that you'll enjoy getting to know me a bit. All images below are original, taken by me or my

Something about this mismatched set of cars feels quintessentially Morecambe to me. I love this shitty little seaside town! Spent the weekend back after months away, and I'm glad I did. Created with Steepshot

This weekend I failed again at something I've been trying to do for many months now, and spent time with some very good friends, and thought a lot about what makes life good. Rainbows are cliche but Ive

My primary work is as a translator, of literature when I can and of other things when I must. I became a translator for many reasons, but first and foremost because I love reading. Translation makes the

Autumn is a surreal fever-dream of a novel, and How to Survive A Plague has 100+ pages of references at the back, and yet they echo with the same kind of truth. Both are stories about solidarity, human

Today in News from the Isle of Man: Someone is going around the Isle of Man shooting wild goats. (Photo Credit: Some other people are annoyed that a man is going around the Isle of Man shooting wild goats.

Icy Sunshine and smoky coffee with a dear friend! I love the Isle of Man but it's good to get back on the "mainland" for a minute. Created with Steepshot View in the web app

As part of my work as a translator, I work with the team at Asymptote-Journal.com. They're brilliant curators of translated writing in English, and this is their first Book Club selection. Full review

As part of my work as a translator, I'm on the team at asymptote-journal.com. They publish truly incredible work from around the world, and this is the first title in their Book Club series. Full review

Not long ago I spent a year studying translation in Montreal, which turned out to be a transformative experience. I met my partner and some of my very best friends there, and it would take a longer post

There’s one kind of person across the world who’s guaranteed to know something about the Isle of Man: Bikers. Whenever my partner and I travel, we strike up conversations with people on motorbikes about

It's common knowledge that animals in isolated habitats often evolve peculiar traits. After all, it was Darwin's research on birds in the Galapagos islands which formed the foundational element of evolutionary

Just a couple of shots from a sunny, icy Isle of Man Sunday walk. Whenever I feel overwhelmed by the isolating, irritating aspects of Island Life, I go for a walk to remind myself of how incredibly lucky

I'm not much of poet, but I am an avid journal-keeper. When just jotting down my feelings isn't quite enough I often feel compelled to find rhythm and rhyme. There's nothing quite as satisfying as feeling

Listen, the Isle of Man is a strange little place. You know what else was strange? The year 2000. I present, for your viewing pleasure, excerpts from the Isle of Man Yearbook (2000). This full-colour document

If you were paying attention to (non-crypto) finance news over the past six months, you may have actually run into the Isle of Man. This is because my sleepy little island featured rather prominently in

It's January, the arbitrary but widely-agreed-upon season of reflection and renewal. I'm an avid but inconsistent poetry reader, occasionally critical but more often in search of words which resonate,

As far as I can tell, I'm the just about the only Steemian currently writing from the Isle of Man. Because of that, I thought what better way to get started than by blogging a little about where I live!

Hi Steem! Donovan here, nice to meet you. I'm an erstwhile American living far from home on a little rock on the Irish sea. Here's a shot of me on a blustery bluff, a classic example of the Isle of Man's