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What gets me up in the morning

Photo by Matt Sclarandis

Whether it’s creating, reporting, reviewing, summarising, editing or simply pondering over universal issues that bug or excite me, writing allows a big chunk of my soul to thrive. I like to make the complex more accessible and include images wherever possible because they help oxygenate my words – they give them life.

I also have a scientific background; trained in the life sciences, or more specifically pharmacology and toxicology. But don’t let that shape your image of me. I’m a curious hybrid: a creature of the Arts and Sciences. I occupy that in-between world, which can be a lonely place. Still, I’m not complaining – solitude for a writer is like petrol to a motor vehicle. It fuels and ignites great work.

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