- Sep 4
I’m Trying to Write About Privilege | Note 38
A few weeks ago, intensely bored from driving across Europe (as I always do with A. during the summer), I amused myself in the passenger...
- Aug 30
Small Book, Big Ideas | Note 37
The books I enjoy the most are usually written by people with whom I feel some sort of affinity. Even if it is only my own biassed...
- Aug 21
Being a Writer | Note 36
Ideas come to me daily — or, should I say, mostly nightly. I used to let these ideas come and go, but not too long ago I made a...
- Aug 14
Lucky Seventy | Note 35
Greetings from the Polish Tatra! The mountains might be my favourite place in the world, and there are many wonderful things about them,...
- Aug 7
The Other Side of the Wall | Note 34
“Why did they go there… Why did they go?” My grandma is sitting in her 1960s armchair with worn upholstery. The living room of her summer...
- Aug 1
The International Gathering | Note 33
Judging by the number on this Field Note, we’re thirty-three weeks into 2023, and more than half of the year has gone by. I’m quite proud...
- Jul 24
Everything You Know About Sports Is a Lie | Note 32
Ongoing sporting controversies – such as the inclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Olympics, or the broader question of...
- Jul 17
Forty Miles South from Paris | Note 31
The spiral staircase between our ground-floor kitchen and first-floor landing is well over a hundred years old. We were told that,...
- Jul 10
Neuroplasticity & YouTube | Note 30
It might seem that optimism or pessimism are our innate tendencies but scientists believe that they are only about 25 percent dependent...
- Jul 3
Warning, I'm RANTING! | Note 29
My YouTube algorithm is wired so that it almost exclusively serves me bouldering competitions, ballerina vlogs, and cute animals. Because...
- Jun 26
They/them | Note 28
Last week, after a long wait, a very personal essay of mine was finally published on Patagonia’s blog. The piece is accompanied by a...
- Jun 19
Village Life | Note 27
It is hard to comprehend that we’ve been in our French home for over four years. Next year, I could apply for citizenship, although there...
- Jun 12
Anxiety AKA My Brain Strikes Again | Note 26
This note might not make much sense. I simply cannot plan it. Can’t even envisage a subject. My brain is frazzled, my stomach hurts, my...
- Jun 5
Sun's Out, Boobs Out | Note 25
I must have been around thirteen when I went for a summer camp at the Polish seaside. I certainly appeared even younger, and I remember...
- May 29
The Weight of the World | Note 24
Last night, we climbed until twilight. We walked out of the forest, listening to birdsong. I overslept, not hearing the alarm go off, and...
- May 24
Olympic Tat | Note 23
I hate buying new things. I wish I could say that it’s my concern for reducing landfill that fuels this hatred but the reality is more...
- May 15
In the Moomin House | Note 22
I like to think that little things around us are connected in meaningful and mysterious ways. It doesn’t matter that I don’t actually...
- May 8
Calling out Catcalling | Note 21
I swear that I will write soon about something – anything – that’s good and wholesome and that brings me joy, but for now it seems that I...
- May 1
"Everybody is a little ADHD" | Note 20
Do you know the feeling when your to-do list is so long that you don’t really know where to start, and end up not starting at all? When...
- Apr 24
Struggling Right Now | Note 19
My last week’s Field Note made me feel quite horrible. Not because of the subject matter – granted, not a particularly cheery one – but...
