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Countdown to Quarantine (Escape from Argentina)
T-10 Days to Quarantine The sun rises hot and high above Argentina on the day I cross the border from Brazil. It’s early on the 9th of...
A.D Cooper
Apr 8, 202013 min read


Distance, the Dog and the Boy in the Backseat
There’s an image from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban that sees Harry run away from home in no particular direction and fall to...
A.D Cooper
Nov 13, 20198 min read


The “Jasmine” story
It feels like the right time. I’ve held back from writing this one purely because it consumes so much of my heart to tell it right and it is important to me that I do it justice. The “Jasmine” story is the story that started the requests to share my stories online. Triggered by a question, a scent, a photograph or a dream, it is the story that gets the most reaction from those I tell. Before I begin, I want to tell you that Jasmine is in quotation marks because that is not h
A.D Cooper
Jun 7, 201913 min read


The Rebound (Tatra Mountains)
Break ups are universally understood to be confusing, infuriating, depressing and often disorientating. Questions often go unanswered about why there was a change, how there was a change or even when the change occurred. Most people would have experienced the numbness this implosion of emotions creates at some point in their life. The first step of an unexpected breakup begins before the penny even drops. With no knowledge of the pending doom that awaits, the relationship is
A.D Cooper
May 15, 20199 min read


The Butterfly Effect
Chaos theory is said to be the science of surprises and the unpredictable. It references the things that occur that are impossible to...
A.D Cooper
Jan 23, 20196 min read


The Key of Change
The turn of a key, that’s all it can take to make a decision. Whether it be to go to the supermarket or not, to visit that girl or not,...
A.D Cooper
Dec 26, 20186 min read
