A few days ago, while walking down the street, I happened to overhear two construction workers talking. On the opposite side, they were leaning against the barrier, cigarette smoke curling slowly upward into the sky. At first, only scraps of their conversation reached me, but then—almost as if someone had… Read More
Imagine this: you spend years building a thriving community of 100,000 followers on Instagram, while the same content on YouTube barely gets a few hundred followers and practically zero views. Sound familiar? I was in that exact situation. For years, I created videos explaining English idioms using 10-30 second clips… Read More
I remember the Commodore 64 era. That distinctive, unmistakable sound of the tape deck loading a game, and the vibrant tension as I waited for the screen of scurrying, pixelated ants to finally become a world I could play in. And I remember the frustration of being stuck on a… Read More
I was talking to an old friend the other day. I hardly have anyone left from my past, and most of them I don’t really miss. To be honest, I’ve only ever had one true friend. He died when he was nineteen, and I never went looking for a replacement…. Read More
A few days ago, Facebook threw one of my long-forgotten contacts back into my feed. I hadn’t seen her in at least thirty years. She’d aged—like all of us—but still… there was something about her. Something that made me stop scrolling. She was still attractive, with that quiet beauty she… Read More