It has been a while since I last had time to post anything here (even though I am reading and more book reviews are coming up!). I was keeping a running page of random notes and quotes in my note-taking app and wanted to highlight a small compilation of unconnected things that made me emotional […]
MoreI found this quote on Reddit and I thought it was brilliant. It is from “The Kindly Ones” by Jonathan Littell: “Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and […]
MoreI have recently been rewatching The Queen’s Gambit. I watched it a couple of years ago and loved it. I am trying to consciously consume more long-from quality format. I also love the stories that get inside the brain of a genius and show the internal, coming-of-age struggle. I find them inspirational. It even inspired […]
MoreI have been feeling especially overwhelmed by the speed of the information in the past couple of months, especially in light of the recent events in the Middle East. Unverified and fake news reports are one of the problems but the lack of critically thought-out articles is another. But besides the news, I feel like […]
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What a year! 2022 was by far the hardest year of my life that I can remember. I gave birth in 2021 and even that was easier than 2022. But as a famous song lyric has it, “What does not kill us, makes us stronger”, right? The year started strong but also quietly as usual […]
MoreI am sitting on the porch of my parents’ summerhouse somewhere in the Czech Republic gazing at the trees that turn yellow-brown right on the mountain right in front. These patches of auburn in the middle of greenery look like auburn clouds. I just finished drying the dishes – Bohemian porcelain, if you will. These […]
MoreWhen one door closes, another door opens. Is it not how the saying goes? I don’t know but it does certainly feel like this. At the end of January this year, I said to Nicolas that I want to move to the Netherlands and that would be a cool adventure. I don’t know why I […]
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