Final episode of the podcast as I wind down my newsletter. I talk about being uncertain, sitting in the unknown, and transitions. If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember /

all to the good!

Apr 21st, 2021 10m 29s

My penultimate letter. Writing about my Saturn return so far, and how shaving and dyeing my hair represented an internal shift as well as an external one.In the newsletter edition & on the transcript, you can find a list of my favourite newslet

It's not you, it's me.

Mar 24th, 2021 10m 14s

Endings and new beginnings. If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // website: www.davidatkinson.work

stuck, embarrassed, hopeful

Feb 25th, 2021 11m 49s

On feeling stuck, trying to write a book, being embarrassed all the time and finding hope again. If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta

for the greater good of the people in the park

Dec 4th, 2020 6m 55s

Pondering alone time, staying connected digitally, and briefly considering whether there should be a limit to how many good looking people should be allowed to exercise in a park at the same time. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text

Unlikely....not impossible

Oct 25th, 2020 9m 54s

Recounting one of my greatest public humiliations & embracing my musical 'guilty' pleasures. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // i

Boys in Polish // Doing Too Much

Aug 9th, 2020 12m 18s

I got my nails done and thought a lot about toxic masculinity & how doing so helped me unlearn some of the ways in which it wasn't allowing me to connect to my truest self-expression. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest

be softer, kinder

Jul 22nd, 2020 13m 12s

A slightly deeper dive than usual, where I explore what it can mean to redefine words for ourselves, focusing on success, failure, love & kindness. I also touch on the impact that All About Love by bell hooks had on me, and how specificity is c

Memories from Paris

May 13th, 2020 10m 54s

Falling in love with Ex Factor by Lauryn Hill, thanks to a special friendship in a wonderful Summer in Paris.-If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design

Back in my body

Mar 24th, 2020 17m 44s

In this episode I talk about grounding during an unsettling time and share a short story I wrote. It's about a formerly romantic protagonist who's given up on love, until a meet cute makes him reconsider. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find

My favourite books of 2019

Feb 2nd, 2020 14m 35s

My favourite reads of 2019, why I loved them & why you should read them too!-If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetorem

'So... you're sure you're not gay? Not even bi?'

Jan 26th, 2020 11m 18s

I wrote this in the lead up to Pride 2018. Thinking back to what it was like being in the closet at high school, talking about the experience of growing up gay in a heterosexual world and what Pride means to me. -If you'd prefer to read, you ca

I think about thinking

Jan 5th, 2020 4m 10s

I've always been an over thinker. Re-reading one of my favourite novels (On Beauty - Zadie Smith) confronted me with a character who is also prone to getting stuck in his head. Surprising no one, this got me thinking...about thinking. -If you'd

I matched with a barista on Tinder

Jan 5th, 2020 4m 8s

I am forever falling in love with strangers, bar tenders, baristas, men on the tube. So to learn that the barista I had been unashamedly flirting with liked me back was a dream come true. But life isn't the 90's rom com I want it to be - and do

The longevity of kindness

Jan 5th, 2020 5m 37s

I wrote about an old ritual a friend & I had, that always meant a lot to me at the time but as I've grown older I can see it also had a deeper meaning - one that is extremely special to me. It's about friendship, my in-the-closet life at high s

Not all those who wander are lost!

Jan 5th, 2020 5m 7s

In this TinyLetter, I'm exploring how conditioned we all are to rely on our phones for directions and how it's not only changed the meaning of being lost, but how often we end up in that position. Maybe that's not always a good thing.-If you'd

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