My Story

Autumn always makes me want to put the kettle on and disappear into a good story. Here are 20 quotes from books and films for days when staying in sounds lovely.

Living with OCD and agoraphobia affects almost every part of my day, from food and leaving the house to emails, work and running an eBay business. This is what severe OCD actually looks like in my everyday life — and why I’m trying to build a life alongside it instead of waiting until I’m completely better.

Millennials get a lot of stick for being emotionally avoidant, but the truth is more specific than that. We don't avoid conflict so much as we handle it in two very distinct ways, with almost nothing in between. This post looks at why that is, and what it actually costs us.

Living in a 180-year-old Scottish cottage means constantly finding pieces of the people who lived here before us. From Beatrix Potter stepping stones and a mysterious name carved into stone to a naked statue by the pond and Voltarol sealed into a wall, these are some of the strangest things we’ve discovered so far.

My life in Scotland looks almost nothing like the future I once imagined. Between building an eBay business, growing grapes in my greenhouse, losing weight and writing music again, I'm learning that an unexpected life doesn't have to be a lesser one.

Meet The Rural Reseller, my brand-new YouTube channel documenting what it really looks like to build an eBay reselling business from scratch in rural Scotland — mistakes, wholesale stock, sales and all.

Millennials cop a lot of criticism. Some of it's fair, most of it's recycled, and almost none of it accounts for the fact that our most annoying habits are also, somehow, our best ones. Here are seven things that are genuinely wrong with us, and why I can't quite bring myself to be sorry about any of them.

That creeping feeling when a friend announces something big and your first thought is about your own life rather than theirs. It happens to almost everyone, and it doesn't make you a bad person. But it can make you miserable if you don't know what you're actually dealing with.

I always knew my roots ran deep through Ireland, but I never expected them to lead me to the Choctaw Nation. After feeling an unexplained connection to Native American stories, I discovered an extraordinary act of generosity during the Great Irish Famine — and a friendship between two peoples that has lasted for generations.