Penelope

“I’m back… and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’.” ― Margaret Thatcher There are times in life when unexplainable things happen. Things that go against everything you believed in. Things that change your whole view of life itself. This is a story … Continue reading Penelope

Cake

“Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.” ― Philip Slater Mother’s Day. Like Father’s Day is … Continue reading Cake

The grocery list

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.” ― Mae West Have you ever seen Malcolm in the middle? There is an episode in which Lois gets a few serendipity moments in which she starts seeing a masseur because she has fifteen minutes with … Continue reading The grocery list

Pandora’s box

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ― Charles Bukowski You can be whatever you want your parents said. They forgot to tell you that you are … Continue reading Pandora’s box

Size matters

“Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.” ― William s. Burroughs The beauty of tiny apartments lies in the small details. The carpet carefully placed beside the bed, the tiny vase with fake flowers on the shelve, the big bed slapping you … Continue reading Size matters

Sisyphus

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin Sometimes the world is too loud. Sometimes all you need is a little peace and quiet. Real quiet. Meaning no phone, no internet, no news, no TV shows, no … Continue reading Sisyphus

Al dente

“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “wolf, wolf” and there was no wolf behind him.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature CoVid-19 the … Continue reading Al dente

Lemons

“Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters When I was a child everyone kept asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wish they had told me instead, … Continue reading Lemons

Online Shopping

“If all online products at all online stores are the same, then of course I’ll use a price-shopping Web site to find the cheapest product” ― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? It seems like nowadays everybody complaints about the damage to the environment and to small business owners caused by the shipping of very … Continue reading Online Shopping