“I don’t like being photographed”
This week I went on vacation to Mexico City, and something funny happened, because I felt like I was coming back home. I had described something similar to this feeling in an old entry of my previous Spanish blog, in which I wrote about how I felt going back to Guanajuato while I was living […]
The Happy Dance
I have always believed happiness is not constant. If it were like that, perhaps we would never even notice we are happy, we would just be… in a regular state, I guess. For me, happiness feels like heartbeats – you get peaks of feel-good moments, and when you get lots of those in a row, […]
Making Sense of Things
I have to say it — 2021 has been one of my least favorite years ever. And I don’t want to appear bitchy or unappreciative, but I have had some rough years in my life, and this one is way ahead in my ranking right now. And guess what? It isn’t over yet. 28 more […]
What Doesn’t Add Up
I had an epistolary conversation with one of my fellow linguists who after a few years of collaboration I now consider my friend. We were discussing his father’s situation. Unfortunately, his dad has cancer in a very advanced stage and he is currently investing his time traveling, visiting relatives and old friends, sort of going […]
Quarantined sourdough
A couple of weeks ago, I started annoying some of my friends and family members with this idea that I had about starting my own batch of sourdough. It started as a culinary challenge, and then little by little it became a part of a joke related to this apocalyptic scenario we are all living […]
The Ballad of Missed Opportunities
I quite frequently find myself singing a song by the duet Shakespear’s Sister, called ‘Hello’. The music of the duet caused a deep impact in me as a teenager back in the nineties, and as I have grown older, I have found new meaning in their music – as have I with the music of […]
The Value of Normal
People tend to underestimate the value of normal until their situation is no longer normal. Then they start longing for normality. I haven’t written anything lately. Not for this blog or even for my personal purposes. The last few months have simply been crazy, hectic, confusing, exciting, full of difficult moments and of instants of […]
Alive
Sometimes we do many different things just because we like them, and ultimately because we like to feel alive. Gosh, there’s a lot more behind that sentence than it seems – much more philosophy at least – but perhaps that’s material for a future post. Anyway, I spend so much time in so many different […]
Lonely Worker
I have my own Company and I run it mainly from my home office, usually alone. I cannot get up and go to the other room for some interaction. The closest I get to that is changing Windows in my computer to talk to my colleagues via WhatsApp, Skype or e-mail. I virtually interact with […]
Nerd Pleasures
A couple of days ago I gave in to some of my nerdiest pleasures and it was gooooood. I was already a nerd as a teenager, but I didn’t embrace it back then because, well, as basically almost everyone in this world, I hoped I could get to be one of the cool persons. Perhaps […]