Would you say nine years is a long time? Let me think here… Yes, I think it is. Very long! So much happens in a week, and this is many many weeks. I found a video from nine years ago. Actually, no, I didn’t find it as I wasn’t looking for it. A notification popped […]
Read MoreUbuntu
Life is beautiful because looking back you can see the path you’ve taken, from the very beginning to the exact place where you are now. It seems that sometimes we make small, insignificant steps, but they may grow into a wonderful path, and reward with lifelong relationships. ‘Yo soy porque nosotros somos’. It was another […]
Read MoreGone
‘I wish I had two legs like everybody else. But God must have had his plan. I am happy’. That is the post that I had seen on Facebook. It touched me. Not only because of the person who had said it, who had no legs. But also because only recently I managed to say […]
Read MoreA nightmare
I open the door of our apartment and slowly walk in. I see two people, a man and a woman, holding guns. They don’t say a word. Neither do I. I walk from the hall to the kitchen to the bathroom, seeing more people inside, feeling them follow my every step with their eyes. More […]
Read MoreMy riches
And there she was… To be more precise, there she was somewhere two floors above me. ‘Nothing makes you feel like a woman till you squeeze a baby out of you’, – I announced, an expert after my daughter was born. Nothing makes you feel in as much of a loss untill your newborn is […]
Read MoreThe grass is greener
I often catch myself thinking: -When I have more money, my life will be so much better. -When I find a man, THE man, my life will be so much better. -When I get a new job, my life will be so much better. -When I have my own place, finally, my home, my life […]
Read MoreOh, baby!
I was at a baby shower a couple of weeks ago. It was so much fun: lots of good friends, laughter, mojitos (for some ‘virgin’, for me – definitely not) and finger lickin’ good food. At one point, while gathering around a yummy dip and tortilla chips, and talking about the joys and hardships of […]
Read MoreThe things I want
‘I want daddy’, – says my little one almost every night before falling asleep. ‘I want him too’, I echo in the dark. I want, in no particular order: My dinner ready, when I get home from work.My house cleaned, because he hasn’t found a job yet.My laundry done, because he is good at it. […]
Read MoreThe wait
When all you hear and see is war, nothing else matters as much. All you want is for it to end, and wish it had never started in the first place. All you can do is wait, and it’s the longest wait. During my backpacking years I often found myself wishing for one thing only […]
Read MoreThe (lack of) men in my life
I feel like in these past couple of weeks I’d gone from zero to hero and become this femme fatale. Mind you, it didn’t last long. Just a few days later I was back to zero. No!.. Here is what happened in between the two zeros. As you well know, I’d been mopping around for […]
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