Wannabe writer with hobby of art. Stay and you'll glimpse a small piece of my heart.
I don't think it is too much of an exaggeration to say that when Sergey and I moved to this house in Spring, we came to it the way wounded animals crawl into a burrow to lick their wounds. We each endured a blow that exploded our respective frameworks of how the world works.
Read moreCovers: Hacksaw Ridge, Jet Boss, Rose Daughter, First Lie Wins, and more!
Read moreI fell down the rabbithole and entered Wonderland. Or perhaps I have emerged from that dark, cramped rabbithole, out of the insanity and contradictions that had me lost and confused and wandering mazes for most of my life, and am seeing a wide open meadow for the first time.
Read moreBeing Bipolar 2 can have the occasional upside.
Read moreFor the last couple of weeks I've been more than a little obsessed with a rap/hip-hop song and I think that's a sign that I need to sit down and analyze its lyrics and my reaction to them.
Read moreOne of the traditional staple on-the-go foods in Japan, Onigiri is one of several rice-based dishes Sergey and I started incorporating on a regular basis. It took us a while to get it right, but we think we're on the right track.
Read moreSergey and I have been looking for light-but-filling recipes and have come up with several rice-based ones. Many of them require us to prepare short-grain white rice as a component, so we came up with a process for making good Japanese rice.
Read moreCovers: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, Suzume, The Sound of Freedom, Peter Pan, and more!
Read moreHow often do you think about your language as your mother tongue? How often do you think about how comfortable it is to be surrounded by it?
Read moreCovers: Once An Arafat Man, Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, Donut County, Star Trek: Discovery, and more!
Read moreAskfriend wonders: What values do you hold? Do you live them day to day? How important is it for you to uphold your values?
Read moreHaving learned from my 2022 goals what reasonable goal-setting looks like, I resolved to push several of my projects to the next stage while tackling a couple smaller personal growth projects. I drew up a list of goals that seemed pretty reasonable and started my year.
Read moreWhere there had been a symphony was now a cacophony. The choir reeled in shock, trying to find their places. The heart was stunned to silence.
Read moreCalm settles over Arc like a shrouded cage, shutting his swift-growing fury up into a little prison. In this moment, he is just a wingless chick and this is the corpse of his mother.
Read moreThe melody follows him under, into the dark. At first, it is Aria's voice lullabying him to sleep as she used to in the nest they shared as winglings. It cradles and soothes him, rebuffing ill memories and promising safety. Rest.
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