the call came in when the day, another sunday at work, slowly started leaning towards its end. it was one of those calls you neither expect not wait for to happen. it was a colleague of mine, asking for advice. very specific advice, advice on one of my dreams: working or attending colleage or at [...]
it’s those little moments when you doubt if the path you have walked so far is the one you want to walk up to its very end. and then there’s moments that re-assure you that will it might take some detours, some one -ways and dead ends to ultimately understand that while the path is [...]
if i’d ever have the choice the newspaper i’d love to work for would be the new york times. not for the name, the reputation or its history but because it has resisted – please call upon on me if i am wrong – giving up common sense and sensibility. not only did i enjoy [...]
we walked for half an hour and even though if i knew where we were map-wise, we were lost. it was classic, we got off the ship at nassau and just tried to get away from the thousands of other tourists. it’s something i’ve always stuck to: get away from the crowds, the groups – [...]
i knew it was there. i was in the words of the cab driver, it was in the smile and chat with the waitress, it was there in the love of the russian immigrant and it was in the gentle optimism of the jewish ex-army-girl. i took me some time to warm up to it [...]
america was always a dream to me. i can’t really tell why but most likely – and as for so many people who came – it felt like the promised land, where everything was possible, where you could achieve if you only try hard enough. now being 27, it’s my fourth time here (having seen [...]