Author: WALLY

  • Getting Started With a New Smartphone

    Getting Started With a New Smartphone

    There is a particular moment that almost everyone goes through with a new smartphone. The box is open, the shiny glass rectangle is sitting in your palm, and it lights up with a screen full of little coloured squares you have never seen before. Your heart does a small, uncertain flip. What on earth do…

  • Small Ways to Sleep Better After Sixty

    Small Ways to Sleep Better After Sixty

    There is an odd little myth that follows us into later life: that older people simply need less sleep. It is not quite true. You need just as much good rest as you ever did — usually seven to eight hours — but getting it can become a trickier business. Sleep grows lighter, more easily…

  • Staying Steady on Your Feet

    Staying Steady on Your Feet

    There is a small moment that arrives, quietly, for a great many of us as the years add up. You rise from your favourite chair, the one you have risen from ten thousand times before, and for just a heartbeat the room seems to sway — as though the floor has taken a breath. It…