Todd,
over here in Europe, your profile picture — wearing a baseball cap indoors — stings a little.
It’s like watching someone eat soup with a fork. Not catastrophic, just… mildly painful.

The logo of Nando’s is “Galo de Barcelos”, a symbol of Barcelos, a portuguese town. Here, we say — and write — “piri-piri”

some lives are bold, others underlined—yours, it seems, moves in italics, always slightly ahead of the rest of the sentence

Hardcore enough to let poetry whisper its way into every corner of my day. I write as often as the words demand it, though no tattoos—poetry lives under my skin without ink. And yes, books over meals—what’s hunger compared to a line that feeds the soul?

Poetry exists to peel back the surface of the familiar, restoring its original mystery and allowing us to see with unclouded eyes.