“i often daydream about the woman i’ll be when i leave the rush of my insecure twenties and pick-up self-assurance on the way i can’t wait to make my eighteen-year-old self jealous of the hell i raise roaring into my thirties…
“Clearing my mind and taking a series of deep breaths, I set my bow to the strings and let the opening notes of Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark Ascending” string. This is my dad’s favorite song. He requests I play it on…
I cannot stress enough how important it is for me to visit bookstores and find books that I want to buy. For the first time, I visited the “Labour and Wait” shop, after so many years of looking at their products…
Being inspired, probably, by the increased number of plastic surgeries, especially for the very young people, Scott Westerfeld wrote the trilogy “UGLIES,”starting with 2005. Today, 13th of September 2024, you can see the movie “UGLIES” inspired by the books written by…
I was surprised and upset at the same time when I found out from the book “Connected” that what I considered a miraculous chance meeting with my future husband, was a matter of social connection: “The romantic essence of these stories…
First, I saw the Netflix trailer for the new series “The Perfect Couple,” and then I decided to read Elin Hilderbrand’s book of the same name. This book made perfect sense to me because there are no ideal couples, no matter…
Before it was “The School of Life,” the site was called “The Book of Life.” This was the original site invented by Alain de Botton. I was so impressed with the easiness in reading the articles that I have printed and…
“I am in love with a man who physically hurts me. Of all people, I have no idea how I let myself get to this point. There were many times growing up I wondered what was going through my mother’s head…
Recently, I accepted and integrated the idea that there is no ONE TRUTH. People tell each other their personal opinions, and they deliver them as if they are THE TRUTH. Hence, multiple conflicts happen all the time between humans. I recently…
When I read about “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” I thought at first, what a strange dictionary. Then I understood that the author, John Koenig, wants to “shine a light on the fundamental strangeness of being a human being.” I was expecting…
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