Another Christmas has passed. Just as flat and meaningless as all the others. Christmas markets, presents, visiting relatives. The same few days we try to make seem more important, more significant than they actually are each year. As if it weren’t just another date on the calendar. I’ve never understood… Read More
Some sentences don’t hit you when they’re spoken. Only later. Much later. Years, even decades later — for example, in a shop. When you’re not thinking about anything in particular, just paying, packing, moving on. That’s when those old images tend to flash back, the small details I’ve been writing… Read More
I’ve gotten used to it by now – every day for years, someone I haven’t seen in decades pops into my head. These days, so many things trigger these memories. But yesterday, I think I hit a new peak in crazy associations. I was toasting Hungarian egg barley when a… Read More
I come from a rather strange family. I always felt something was off, though I couldn’t name it as a child — only that everyone around me seemed duller, simpler, smaller than the picture a kid likes to paint of their own family. My grandfather, for example, owned exactly two… Read More
People come and go in everyone’s life. Sometimes they seep in over weeks and months, others rearrange everything around us in a single explosion. Some of them stick around for a while. They become friends, lovers, maybe enemies, rarely partners. They’ll be with us for a summer, some will spend… Read More
When you get entangled in your memories, sooner or later you arrive at your great loves. That’s what happened to me. I recently wrote about the first one, the real one, the breakthrough that showed me how wonderful it is to belong to someone. Which made me realize what a… Read More
I’ve said before that my first real girlfriend wasn’t the “girl next door,” but the most beautiful, most popular girl at school—the one who always stood in the middle in photos because everyone looked at her, whether they wanted to or not.What I haven’t written about is that I had… Read More
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