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Attention: Not for Sale

If you could un-invent something, what would it be? Ads! You wake up. An ad plays in your dream-fogged mind – something about breakfast cereal…
Notes on a Cluttered Mind

Where can you reduce clutter in your life? Every morning feels like walking into a room where someone’s left every drawer open, every cabinet door…
Nothing Special

“Hey,” I called across the room, watching my sister scan through a math test on her computer. Perfect timing – quiet morning, kids at school,…
The Mark I’m Here to Make

Stripped to my bones, this is what I know: I create because I must. Because something inside me knows there’s a gap in the world…
Coming Home for the Holidays

Some days feel like walking through thick fog. You know the path is there, but each step requires more trust than certainty. The familiar becomes…
Straight Talk in Soft Spaces

Tonight, on the edge of a new year, I think about how words feel different here and back home. At home, we spoke straight as…
My Suspended Sanctuary

The perfect reading space isn’t built against a wall – it floats. I’ve got two swinging chairs in my reading corner. Two. My egg chair…
The Last Children of the Soviet Era: 1981

I was born in the year of mixed tapes and Soviet medals. 1981. Mom says it was a warm autumn in our Bulgarian village in…
The Art of Reading People

We all think we can read people. That familiar gut feeling when meeting someone new – the instant like or dislike, trust or suspicion. But…
Mindful vs Mind full

There’s a cruel joke in the English language: how “mindful” and “mind full” are separated by just a space, yet describe completely opposite states of…