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Continue reading →: The Cipher BrokenI have cracked the cipher at last. Within these sanctuary walls, I stand vindicated – an outsider who trusted her instincts when all counselled doubt. Today I glimpsed that better world, the earthly paradise which proves society need not remain inferno.
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Continue reading →: Corridor MonthCatherine clocks that her boldest moves cluster in October, not summer: interviews, watercolours, Bartók, a Québec booking, and long-buried letters bearing her mother’s name, as she wonders why she comes most alive in months that look like endings, not beginnings.
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Continue reading →: Berta Karlik: The Element FinderA physicist who discovered nature’s hidden element during wartime Vienna speaks candidly about breaking barriers, proving astatine occurs naturally, and how her overlooked work now saves cancer patients. Rigorous science, international networks, and the cost of being first.
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Continue reading →: The CrossingAt the harbour’s edge, November 1942. Soldiers wait for dawn and the crossing. A mentor tells them the cost, why November speaks truth, what the abyss demands. No brave words. No false promises. Just the reckoning before they go.
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Continue reading →: The Harbour Within the HarbourCatherine walks the Delaware at dawn with Father Walsh and asks whether her favourite place is the harbour path, her shell-lined consulting room, Marcus’s café or a museum stillness space – discovering it might be room where she dares arrive as herself.
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Continue reading →: Alice Lee: The Statistician Who Measured Anatomists’ Skulls and Debunked Gender ScienceAlice Lee, Victorian statistician, dismantled pseudoscience linking skull size to intelligence – by measuring anatomists’ heads and naming them publicly. Paid less than a typist, she refused to recant under pressure from Francis Galton himself. Her rigorously calculated revenge rewrote evolutionary biology.
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Continue reading →: Green WallsSaturday. Green walls breathing. Can’t remember my own name but they keep asking the same questions. What’s your favourite place? Heart hammering, breath catching. Something I’m not supposed to know. Something locked up tight. Maybe I did this to myself.
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Continue reading →: First Impressions and the Art of Not Arriving Fully AssembledCatherine quietly audits her own “professional armour” as she ponders the first impression she gives: impeccable clinician, or actual human being with crooked watercolours and late-life hopes. Expect harbour walks, office chairs, and a risky inch towards being known.
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Continue reading →: Christine Ladd-Franklin: The Logician Who Refused Her Fake Diploma and Rewrote the Rules of Valid ArgumentAt seventy-eight, Christine Ladd-Franklin demanded her earned PhD – denied forty-four years earlier simply for being a woman. Discover how this mathematician and logician solved problems that baffled Aristotle for two millennia, integrated competing colour vision theories decades before neuroscience confirmed her right, and fought relentlessly for recognition in a…
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Continue reading →: Fifty-Seven ViewsDay three on the ice. Filming the glacier die in real time. Nobody’s watching – last video got fifty-seven views. Storm coming in. Should leave but won’t. Another voice note Marcus will never listen to. Just me and the cracking ice.
Feign the virtue thou dost seek, till it becometh thine own
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