On a winter’s morning in 2011, I stood standing on a beach, yelling furiously at these two expert kayakers. That morning, I had decided to learn to paddle an ocean ski, and they agreed to teach me. Now, these things are notoriously “tippy,” and the model I was in was particularly narrow… I had gone...

I’m walking down one of those wide footpaths alongside the river, towards my favourite café. I see someone coming towards me. As we get closer, I shuffle to the left side a bit to make sure they have space. I glance up. I think, wow, this is weird. This person walks kind of like me....