When, in April of 1986 near the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, the No. 4 nuclear reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant shutdown, life and …
Go Back to Where You Came From- Why Being Bilingual is Weird
People tend to ask me whether I think in English or in Spanish quite frequently, and having spoken (and heard) both since I was a …
Linguistic Loneliness
I am writing this and you will understand what it says. That is, of course, if you know how to speak and read English. I …
Fate vs Flux in The Modern World
Life is an odd meandering river of time, something that takes unexpected turns and twists and yet can also recoil back and return to the …
Thinking Beyond Dichotomies- The Toxic Nature of Limitation
Britney Spears shares a bit of wisdom at the beginning of her song “Circus” with her listening audience- there are two kinds of people, those …
The Architecture of Patriarchy
What is means to live, work and learn in spaces designed by men Glass ceilings. Closed doors. We use architectural terms to describe the experiences …
On How to Deconstruct Our Sense of Self to Create More Harmonious Environments
If you are a living human on this planet, it is an inevitability that you have a sense of self – regardless of any extraneous …
The Resurgence of the Personal Essay
Virginia Woolf, in her writing on The Modern Essay, declared in praise of Beerbohm that he has triumphed, for ‘He has brought personality into literature’, …
The Splintering of the Self
There are potentially hundreds of versions of ourselves existing simultaneously in this plane of reality. Multiple editions of each of us exist within the minds …
The Illusion of Self-Care
The self is everything. In a society obsessed with advancement, technology and knowledge, the sense of oneself can be left to the side, free to …