Notes From A Weird Little Island

Jessica Russell
6 min readSep 19, 2022

Also Known As The UK

Photo by Luke Stackpoole on Unsplash

I’ve lived in the United Kingdom all my life and right about now if I could leave I would. What keeps me here is family. I find life in the UK so difficult sometimes I seriously consider maybe I could cut ties with loved ones just to escape. I mean, realistically I couldn’t without being pretty selfish, I have children, and parents who are getting older. But it’s hard to be here and…

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Jessica Russell

Freelance writer. ADHD PhD research student. Educator. Author of The Life of Louise Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X http://jessicarussell.co.uk/