One of my favorite words is resilience. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines resilience as “the ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens.” In this life we live, nobody is exempt from bad things happening to us like losing our jobs, a car accident, a disease, breakup or divorce, and the passing of […]
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Fear of failure
The other day, a college student told me she didn’t want to graduate, and when I asked for the reason, she fearfully replied, “what if I cannot find a job? What if I’m not good enough to do what I’m supposed to do at work?” I transported myself back to the time I was about […]
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Vandella has been published!
Finally, after so many years, my first novel, Vandella, has seen the light of day. It might sound like a triviality for most people, but for us writers, is like delivering a child into the world. Vandella gestated for over ten years, and during that time, slowly abandoned the realm of my thoughts and to […]
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Vandella: What the novel is about?
My grandfather once had the strangest of dreams. He found himself walking the cobblestone streets of a town at twilight. The habitants emerged from every door, corner, and alley in total silence, carrying oil lanterns ahead of them to guide their steps. The gloomy streets quickly populated with feeble lights. Hundreds. Thousands. The crowd gathered […]
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Vandella: Book Cover Reveal
As I revealed to you in a post back in March, I’ve been working diligently during the past months, giving the final touches to my upcoming novel titled VANDELLA. I’m very excited to let you know it is now very close to release, but first I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you, […]
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Afghanistan, or The Modern Frankenstein
On August 16th, 2021, Taliban forces took control of Kabul after nearly two decades of US and NATO occupation. The gruesome images of Afghans crowding the airports to abandon the country, preferring to cling to the fuselage of the parting planes and drop to their certain deaths instead of staying, had previously belonged solely within […]
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The Conquest of Space
When I was a toddler, like most children, I loved balloons. It seemed so magical. A sphere floating above everybody. So ethereal, that had to be tied to the ground to prevent them from abandoning surface and lost themselves in sky’s immensity. But after a few days, the magic always started vanishing. The impetus of […]
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What is the most relevant skill to survive in the future?
The future is now. Maybe not the future we imagined with flying cars, but when we look at it from the perspective that “90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years” and that according to the DOMO report of 2018, “over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every single […]
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The Incurable Affliction of Intelligent Life
If, in a not much distant future, humanity received the unpleasant news that a humongous asteroid is heading toward Earth, promising a collision which would wipe out all intelligent life forms, would that be considered a catastrophe? Most agree that would be the worst tragedy ever. But it would, really? I say it depends. It […]
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How I became a novelist by accident
There are people who discover what they want to be as grownups in childhood. And there are others like me, who figure out just by accident. I basically bumped into the profession like you do with a stranger in a crowded street. If you would ask the child version of me, “what would you like […]
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