Alicia Atkins
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Podcast Appearances
It is a meditation on the meaning of life and death.
I was 28 when I came back to live at home when the markets crashed and I lost my job.
Living with my parents was inconvenient and embarrassing.
Despite the intervening years, returning to their roof and their rules ignited every rebellious teenage instinct I thought I'd grown past.
Before, I'd always hidden the way I felt and tried to blend into the sofa, my bed, the walls.
Both of my brothers and my elder sister returned too.
And of course, Alicia, still the baby at 20, was still living at home while she went to school.
It was Alicia that made me look at the diary with a new set of eyes.
Almost a decade apart in ages, but temperamentally similar.