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I’ve done almost zero planning for more than a week, but at least I am at the very happy stage of getting ready for writing when everything seems to contribute to the novel. Ie yesterday I stumbled upon transhumanism, which seems to pretty much deal with the main conflicts in Newil. (I am, yet again, [...]

Last Saturday, I spent a beautiful day with Emma Jones, and am still digesting her book, slowly, a poem-on-poem basis. Emma is one of those people with whom I reach immediate contact—and have no way of adequately expressing it afterwards; or maybe I’m afraid to talk about it too much lest I shatter that gentle [...]

Lately, I have been so busy at work, that I barely have the time to breathe, let alone blog. However, there is something I can’t forego sharing. A couple of days ago, I suggested my co-worker would love to read “The City & The City” (a book I’m switch-reading simultaneously with “Fool’s Errand” by Robin [...]

So I’m sitting in a bus (with a wi-fi connection), waiting to depart from Riga to Tallinn, leaving for Finncon. I think I’ve checked a hundred times whether I have my passport and tickets. Right now, I’m a bit past worrying and have come to a calm acceptance of my fate, whatever that might be. [...]

..which is the best estimate of my current position. I have cold so bad that every time I cough I keep expecting my lung to fall on my keyboard. But I’m alive, and it’s a lot. This spring is beautiful though. Every sunny day after work, my husband and me spend fifteen minutes (or half [...]

I built a house on a broken hill Broken and mended with my own fears I built a house on an empty space That my mind produced instead of a cure A house of plaster, a house of words A creaking, cracking house of dreams A house that held against all the winds A house [...]

A snowy morning. We are stopping the traffic With a goodbye kiss

First, thanks for the good wishes, folks – I’m remarkably better. I’m, actually, too good, come to think of it – I managed to get healthy enough to promptly stir up my personal life in ways I shouldnt’ve done. However, that taught me not only some “maybe you don’t wanna do this” things I’m not [...]

I’m thinking that people are trying to pressure others into changing their ways basically because it’s scary to differ. Even if you are a part of a larger movement (say, pop music listeners), you feel intimidated by that single rapper in your vicinity, because you don’t know what to expect from him, and, moreover, you [...]

This has been one of those weekends that stretch forever, offering tidbits of real world and how differently people see it. Also, a small and uncomfortable lesson on how much am I willing to listen to people, accept their views, play along in their worlds, be they carpeted by emerald green fake grass or sickly [...]