- 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...
- Apr 17
Higher, Faster, Stronger, Viler | Note 18
“The Cold War did not end, it merely shattered into a thousand pieces.” The opening of a lecture for a group of aspiring Russian spies in...
- Apr 10
April's Fool | Note 17
In much of Central and Eastern Europe, Easter Monday is known as Wet Monday. As per tradition, boys would throw water at girls and whip...
- Apr 3
Mind Blown in Yosemite | Note 16
I’ve heard it said that upon seeing Yosemite for the first time – not on film or in a picture, but in real life – you will be nothing...
- Mar 28
The Frailty Myth | Note 15
In 2001, Adam Małysz of Poland won gold in the Nordic World Championships in ski jumping. Soaring in great style over a mind-boggling...
- Mar 21
The Alpine Club and a Bitch | Note 14
Located in the Swiss Alps, the proud peak of Zinalrothorn rises 4,221 metres above sea level and, to this day, it is usually climbed with...
- Mar 11
Reisefieber | Note 13
I’m stuck. Instead of flowing in lively meandering streams, exploring and experimenting before joining up in orderly rivers, my thoughts...
- Mar 6
Polar Opposites | Note 12
Call me old-fashioned, but I think that there are better ways to support trans rights than getting upset about people reading Harry...
- Feb 27
The Universe Doesn’t Care | Note 11
We all want to be productive. To get shit done. As though ticking things off an endless list was the one antidote against existential...
- Feb 20
Self-improvement | Note 10
I really hate self-help books. Or, at least, I can’t read them and definitely would hate it if I were forced to. Most of them are...
