The Heaviness of Breathing: The worst book ever written

The Heaviness of Breathing: The worst book ever written

November is a blue month for me, and not because it's cold, windy and rainy, but because it reminds me of my communist childhood. When I decided to invest everything in a writing career, I thoug…
The sense of not belonging

The sense of not belonging

Do you ever feel like not belonging anywhere?  I do. Often. Way too often.  Sometimes I even feel like I don't belong to my body.  I don't feel trapped in it, no. I am a woman, and I don't w…
The sun will shine on your road too

The sun will shine on your road too

"The sun will shine on your (our, my) road too," is a Romanian proverb that my family uses a lot, especial one of my sisters, Alexandrina. In English, this would be "After a storm come…
Why do we cry when others cry?

Why do we cry when others cry?

Have you ever asked yourself why do we cry when others cry? I have... many, many times. And my answer was that we relate to the reasons a person cries. I mean, we all go through many terrible things …