Teacher by Trade; Mentor by Mistake
Daniel Puzzo, Jayne Marshall, fialka \ud83c\udf38 unpacked, Lydia RoseStories and tips for language learners, reflections on teaching, bibliophilia, life lessons, occasional wisdom, bad humour, travelling [mis]adventures, curmudgeonry
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I Thought the First Plane Was a Joke. Then the Second One Hit as I Was Taking a S***
“Did you experience 9/11? Were you there? Because I was. And this isn’t funny, this is offensive, this is personal.”
“But you’re not from New York, are you? And weren’t you only four or five at the time?”
“It doesn’t matter, I’m American,...
She Quit Corporate Life to Get Kids to Love Books
“I literally just looked around one day and was like, how have I got here?”
Our second edition of Lunchtime with DP isn’t exactly a traditional lunch time.
After the debut of this feature, I was concerned with how my audience would p...
An Elegy for a Season I Don’t Even Like
Author photo, South Carolina, August 2026
FIVE YEARS AGO, when things were a bit brighter in Kyiv, as I was contemplating yet another end of summer and reminiscing on summers past, sitting on the embankment looking out over the Dnipro Rive...
The Dystopian Future of Air Travel
You’ve travelled by plane so many times in your life, yet on every trip there’s something new to be discovered.
You romanticise and wax nostalgic about the good ol’ days of air travel, when metal cutlery was still in use, when there was on...
“Call Me Nasty!” (Summer School Shenanigans, Part 2)
The mayhem and hijinks continued into the second half of July.
If you missed part 1 of my daily shenanigans, catch up here:
These are lightly edited for clarity and to make some of them sound less nonsensical and more coherent.
Sum...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
"Daniel is my favourite Sarcstacker" (Hanna Delaney) / Author, teacher, bibliomaniac, flâneur, raconteur, shining wit (and lover of spoonerisms), grumpy bastard, curmudgeon, prankster, polymath (haha), Ukrainophile, Vienna based (for now)
My debut essay collection was published in 2025 by Modern Odyssey Books. My second collection will be published by Ybernia in 2027. I hold a master's in creative writing (University of Oxford). I'm an editor + Editor of The Madrid Review.
Prague-based ✨experience enthusiast✨ on a neverending yap. Ethical travel + travel culture essays + niche destinations. Mom of a frog \ud83d\udc38
Books, writing and the bits in between. Monthly newsletter: Murmurations \ud83e\udeb6
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