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
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
This will be a short post. Just a two-minute rant. Not overthinking, not analysing – just a little grumbling about how annoying it is when someone is careless, lazy, or simply stupid. Translating a movie is a huge job. English is full of expressions that are extremely hard to translate… Read More