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Oaxaca –  Lorena Rodriguez The plane shakes as we hit turbulence. I sit by the window so I can see the tip of the right wing wobble like a piece of paper in the wind. My involuntary reaction is fear. I grab hold of the seat in front of me and keep looking at the […]

She looks divine.     I take her hand and raise it gently. She smiles.     I take her to the dance floor and turn her over with a swift pull. Her back is close to my chest. I sense the sweet, fresh aroma of her hair. A few seconds pass as I watch […]

If you’d get up very early in the morning in the Hungary of the late ‘90s and early 2000s and drive on one of the main roads towards Budapest, you’d notice people standing by the side of the road. Hundreds of them. Wearing ramshackled working clothes, holding their supermarket nylon bag containing their lunch, they […]

I’ve happened to eavesdrop on a kid’s phone conversation today. I was working in my living room and couldn’t help overhearing this kid next door talking to her mum and family on the phone. She was speaking on the balcony so I couldn’t have stopped listening even if I’d wanted to. But I didn’t, because […]

Our brains are hardwired to prefer certainty to uncertainty. We feel safe when the world around us is predictable. In our professional lives, we prefer the job that offers more security at the expense of freedom, creativity and a sense of purpose. In our emotional lives, we prefer a bad relationship to being alone, because […]

She’s gorgeous, intelligent and knows herself better than I will ever know myself. She completely owns up to and accepts who she is. And in her case that’s a lot more difficult than it would be for most of us. She has a part that, if not accepted but fought, if not acknowledged but ignored, […]