“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“I may be a twin, but I am one of a kind…” Jerry Smith So here we have in no particular order, a Chinese Jinhao 194 and a German Mont Blanc 149. See what they did there. I am the lucky owner of both these fountain pens. One is made of precious resin, the other… Read more

“The variety, charm and beauty of life, are made up of light and shade…” Leo Tolstoy I don’t recall everything that I studied for my surgical primary examination, but I do remember that the minimum brightness for an operating theatre light was 1000 lux. I was also taught that a lux was the output of… Read more