The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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I thoroughly enjoyed high school in Nairobi: it was before everybody had a camera on their phone. I experimented with fashion and hairstyles that I am glad I don’t have any record of.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2019 source ↗
When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.
When my kids were little – and now, in my old age.
As a boy in a tree.
When I got my dogs, Charlie and Ziggy Stardust. One is a pomeranian mix and the other is a rescue mutt, and, oh my God, he's so cute.
When I have a to-do list and finish it in the time I intended to.
Like the froth on top of a hot chocolate.
I waited tables for one night at the turn of the century. They were being fussy about how I put the food on the plates, and I couldn’t have cared less.
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