When I was young I used to dream of being a writer.

As I race towards the wrong side of forty, I still do.

I’ve been a professional copywriter and freelance journalist for almost twenty years, running my own business for ten of them. In that time I’ve written features for Glamour, Inverse, TechRadar, and others.

And yet, I still find myself with stories lodged inside me.

I’m a ketchup bottle, which makes this Substack an open palm banging the embossed “57” to jar them loose.