Beauty and Longevity Without Chasing Youth
Youth is a stage; it cannot be a life strategy. When beauty is defined only as the ability to look younger, time becomes an enemy and every change a defeat.
The Notebook
Short pieces: travel, literature, memory, the sea, nature, art, the writing process, reading. Not a blog: the space where the process shows itself without explaining itself.
Wellbeing Without Perfection
Wellbeing becomes useless when it turns into another impossible obligation. Perfect sleep, perfect food, perfect training, positive thinking, productivity, meditation and gratitude every…
When an Image Looks Back
Looking appears innocent until it no longer is. A photograph can begin as a record and end as evidence, desire, currency, threat or memory. The image itself does not necessarily change.…
Identity in the Face of Time
Time alters almost everything we use to recognise ourselves: the face, the voice, the body, relationships, places and even the way we remember. Yet we often speak of identity as if it were…
Uncertainty Before a Decision
Some decisions can wait for more information. Others cannot. In medicine, architecture, a relationship or a life, there comes a point when continuing to wait becomes a decision in itself.
Family Secrets and the Documents That Never Arrived
Families produce archives too. They keep photographs, emails, bills, letters, silences, repeated versions and documents no one quite knows why they kept. A family archive is never neutral:…
Medicine and Fiction: Two Ways of Seeing
Medicine and fiction can seem to belong to different rooms. One demands evidence, precision and clinical responsibility; the other may invent, displace and make visible what never happened.…
Why Diagnosis Must Come Before Technique
A technique answers the question “how.” Diagnosis must first answer “what” and “why.” When that order is reversed, a tool begins looking for a problem that will justify its use.
Why I Wrote The Judeska Ledger
Some novels are built around a plot; others around a question. The Judeska Ledger belongs to the second kind. Its centre is not the search for who is right, but the observation of what…
What an Author Learns by Rewriting Her Own Work
Rewriting a work years later is a strange experience: part of the text still belongs to us, and another part seems to have been written by someone we know too well. The temptation is to…
What Is a Contemporary Philosophical Fable?
A philosophical fable does not require talking animals or a moral at the end. What it requires is a narrative situation capable of putting an idea under pressure. Philosophy enters fiction…
What It Means to Live Radiantly
Radiance is a word the beauty industry uses easily. It is often reduced to light on the skin, apparent youth or a visible result. Radiant Forever proposes something more demanding: to think…