Practical, no-nonsense, and achievable tips — Inspiration for a writer is key to developing new ideas. Also key is keeping our perspiration to a minimum. Joking aside, when I write I seek spiritual and mental stimulation from a variety of sources such as: fiction and nonfiction, the natural world, and interactions with other people. One of…

As usual I’m left with more questions than answers, but that’s part of the immigrant’s journey — Forget Brexit and its toxic legacy. For as long as I’ve lived in the UK, the long-standing, unsolvable, contentious issue has been: milk in first or last? Welcome to Great Britain, a country where people take their tea-drinking seriously. …

Two photographs, one city — It’s been three years since COVID-19 made us rethink our relationship with loo roll. I still remember the initial confusion. Should we shake hands or not? Will we die if we do? That person coughing non-stop on the Tube, should we wrestle them to the ground and kick them out…

And I’m OK with it — “What I have tried to do as a writer for the better part of twenty years is to present my work in a more intimate and identity-free way. I am Cuban. I am black. I am a man. I am an EAL immigrant. These are truths that leave very little…

The column for those who swing more than one way… foodwise — This space today wants to celebrate simplicity, to honor the craft of turning the humblest of dishes into a lip-licking, satisfying meal. In order to do this, I’ve gone for one of my regular weekend treats: eggy bread. Some readers might confuse eggy bread with French toast. They’re not the same. The former is savory, whilst the latter usually includes jam, honey, or maple syrup.

Stop panicking, the robots will not take over — Not a day passes without my Twitter, LinkedIn, and Medium feeds giving me the heebie-jeebies. The end is nigh. ChatGPT will take over the world and make writers redundant. What a lot of… Horlicks. Here’s why we have nothing to fear from our metallic friends. Humans have got brains, robots…

Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co. — Many people think that craft beer is a recent phenomenon invented by heavily tattooed hipsters. Yet, the world of breweries and pale ales goes back centuries in the British capital. …

Where my left and right sides of the brain come together — One of the certainties of life is that I do not know and I will continue not to know. What I mean by that is that my knowledge will always be finite and limited. There will always be more things I will not know about than things I will. This…

The column for those who like to swing more than one way… foodwise —