During lockdown, nostalgia has become a kind of addiction for me. I search for it everywhere – every evening walk with my dog makes me …
How Childhood Myths Became Sobering Accounts of Societal Injustices
Bailam corujas e pirilamposEntre os sacis e as fadas.E lá no fundo azulNa noite da florestaA lua iluminouA dança, a roda, a festa…[O Vira, Secos …
On the Peculiar Nature of Emotional Time Travel
Following my grandfather’s death, my mother kept several of his jackets and sweaters lodged away in the deeper part of her closet. She put them …
The Magic of Food
‘Food’, my Dad begins, stretched out languorous and pleasantly full after one of my Mum’s legendary Sunday dinners, in the back garden amongst the summery …
The Unexplained Beauty of Chance Encounter
Those of you who have read Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being know how beautiful and poetic circumstance can be. If you have watched Alejandro …
The Magic Within.
“Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching I lost my …
Symbols of Responsibility
I think I learnt the English word for the term first. Scapegoat. The person who is blamed for the faults or mistakes of others, the …
The Linguistic Limits of Love
We all fawned over Blair calling out to Chuck in season 2, episode 1 of Gossip Girl: Three words, eight letters, say it and I’m …
Does Romantic Love Have an Expiration Date?
When asking my friends and family this question, the overwhelming answer was at first ‘sometimes yes, sometimes no’. Then when I pressed them to answer …
Wow – You can afford love?
Love is a universal feeling shared by all, known to all and felt by all – good and bad. I feel safe in assuming that …