This category is symbolic of a desk drawer. Someone’s desk drawer may contain personal or private things, like a journal. So, this category represents the writings, reflections, creative works, or other content that are personal to me. I choose to share them publicly here too.
Some time may have passed since a post was first published. If you find something disagreeable, remember I am human too. My views are subject to change as I continue to live my life. In other words, the way I expressed something in the past may not be how I express myself today. Avoid assuming. Ask me!
- Storytelling: 2023 Was a Quiet Blog Year. in 2024, I Recommit to Storytelling.
When I was a student, I wrote about what I learned, but I stopped writing regularly. Now I want restart my storytelling habits again in 2024.
- White Narrative: You Cannot Be What You Cannot See?
Can white privilege and identity become superpowers for love and justice? If I can't wait for that story, maybe I have to take the first step.
- Shells.
Friend, are you okay?
- Better Than I Knew Myself.
There are moments I reflect back on my life when I met someone who interacted with me in an impressive way. Though unknown to me then, I feel now that they perceived my authentic, true self when I was still searching.
- Saying No.
This is a story about how I learned to say "no", when the pressure to say "yes" was so great. Learning how to say no became my new superpower.
- Cyclical Nostalgia.
Nostalgia is cyclical at times. Nostalgia keeps us in the past but sticks with us in the present, much like blogging and blogs in the 2020s.
- A Proposal for the End of Accommodations
Language is powerful. Words are subtle building blocks to how we imagine the world around us. So, with the goal of pursuing more equitable language, I propose the end of accommodations.
- Breakfast in Bosnia.
Four years ago, on March 13th in 2017, I woke up for breakfast in the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina. As I ate breakfast on the morning of March 14th of 2021 in the seemingly eternal era of COVID-19, it struck me.
- Unsaid.
When I launched my blog, I always envisioned writing cute snapshots of insight into my life. As much as I would publish them for the Internet, I was also publishing for myself. Or so, it started off this way.
- A Reflection: Gabriele Trombini (Mailga)
Trigger warning: Grief, death. Two years passed since we last met in Bolzano. I remember you traveled in for a day to join the 2018 Fedora Mindshare FAD. You came many hours from your home to see us, and share your experiences and wisdom from both the global and Italian