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Continue reading →: The Ordinary Courage of Asking for MoreNew Corinth’s favourite psychiatrist swaps case notes for a late-life love story on her nightstand, as a quietly subversive novel dares Catherine to want more than usefulness, and to decide whether companionship is worth unsettling her carefully solitary, harbourlit equilibrium.
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Continue reading →: Hedwig Kohn: Measuring Light, Defying ErasureA German-Jewish physicist recounts her 17-year wait for academic recognition, her dismissal by the Nazis, and her brother’s murder in the Holocaust. She discusses how 70 international letters saved her life, the flame spectroscopy work that transformed medical diagnostics, and why measuring light became an act of resistance against totalitarianism.
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Continue reading →: The Web I WoveA poor woman of eight-and-thirty years stands before the justices, caught in the web of her own making. Time has been both servant and master to this coiner of false shillings. Shall mercy be extended, or must justice prevail?
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Continue reading →: Harbouring One LifeCatherine weighs Parisian fantasies against New Corinth’s harbour grit, testing whether a Quebec hotel, her parents’ ghost-cities and a careful-handed man can tempt her from the radical experiment of simply staying put where she already belongs.
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Continue reading →: Ida Freund: First Female Chemistry Lecturer and the Periodic Table of CupcakesA century after her death, the Austrian refugee who became Britain’s first female university chemistry lecturer speaks candidly about inventing periodic table cupcakes, designing apparatus, fighting for women’s professional recognition, and why teaching science joyfully was her most radical act.
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Continue reading →: On Legacy and the Governance of MenA man of property speaks upon legacy and the proper governance of those beneath him. Hear how fear ensures remembrance, how land becomes dominion, and why weakness must be met with iron resolve. Truths for those bold enough to listen.
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Continue reading →: The Shell on the Harbour SillOn a rain-soaked Thursday, Catherine answers a seemingly light prompt: coolest thing she’s ever found and kept. A chipped harbour shell becomes confession booth, colleague, and secular rosary, as she traces how small objects quietly rewrite the work of staying human.
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Continue reading →: Lingering in the Bit In‑BetweenCatherine does battle with the one thing she prescribes to everyone else and resists for herself: unscheduled pauses. In this quiet harbour-night entry, she tests staying in the doorway of her own life a few minutes longer than thinks necessary.
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Continue reading →: Marta Bohn-Meyer: First Woman in the Blackbird – The Engineer Behind NASA’s Forgotten High-Speed ResearchFrom SR-71 Mach 3 flights to aerobatic championships, Marta Bohn-Meyer broke barriers whilst advancing supersonic research. Discover how her laminar flow innovations still shape aviation’s future – and the catastrophic canopy failure that cut short a remarkable career.
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Continue reading →: Her Bright Particular StarNovember 1864: A former theatre wardrobe keeper, now imprisoned, delivers a haunting monologue from a prison yard. Consumed by envy and dreams, she recalls a stolen love letter – the finest thing she ever found – and yearns for transformation she’ll never possess.
Feign the virtue thou dost seek, till it becometh thine own
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