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A decade of weekly essays on life, work, travel, and the experiments in between.

Expiry

Expiry

Somewhere around four in the morning, I woke up in

One Spoon

One Spoon

The same jar, three different desserts

The Table

The Table

Chasing the best view

Empty Spaces

Empty Spaces

Taking time to think

The Longest Hour

The Longest Hour

The deciding took a second. The leaving took an hour.

Cute Cafe

Cute Cafe

The whole day is a forward lean

Lifejacket

Lifejacket

He had been begging to go to the pool, and

Play

Play

We had just finished dinner.

Stubborn

Stubborn

I often forget how much my physical environment shapes my

Permission

Permission

We were at a dinner party last week in Lisbon

Underground

Underground

The Lisbon I knew was never the whole picture

Size of my room

Size of my room

Mistaking familiarity for the full picture

The Checklist

The Checklist

Reasons not to commit

Creator's Mind

Creator's Mind

What I needed help to see

Thirteen Million

Thirteen Million

The contribution was the connection

The Call

The Call

The right to annoy her kids

Plus One

Plus One

Curiosity doesn't always read the script

Unwritten Rules

Unwritten Rules

A blank wall invites chaos.