Disclaimer: I
just hope you will find charming when I spill over the limits of my English as
a second language.
March 24th, 2020
As much as I like winter and miss its bright white coat on snowless Christmas
eves, yesterday morning when we met I didn’t even care to say “HI!” I secretly
hoped it will get the message, take its snowflakes and go to the North Pole.
But after staying for three-days-in-a-row...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Sunday, March 29, 2020
On my CORONA-occasioned English writing fury
Disclaimer: I
just hope you will find charming when I spill over the limits of my English as
a second language.
“Writing is like talking to
your distant neighbor” used to say the philosopher Constantin Noica. And in our globally connected age “distant
neighbor” could literally mean a frightened Vietnamese girl who just learned English
and a middle-aged Peruvian...
Mission statement
What to expect from this
blog
Disclaimer: I
just hope you will find charming when I spill over the limits of my English as
a second language.
The posts from
this blog were occasioned by the COVID-19 crises that literally captured the
entire world. Seeing how we scrambled and clumsily reacted to the aggressive
invisible threat created by CORONA was for me a first time reality show that
evoked...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Am I overreacting to COVID-19?
Disclaimer: I
just hope you will find charming when I spill over the limits of my English as
a second language.
In these times
when CORONA has shown us how interconnected we are, how vulnerable and fragile
life is, one
coffee-cup of anxiety with a teaspoon of worry cream is recommended. A few
days ago I stumbled upon a piece of news that announced, somewhat
condescending, that "Fear spreads...
A snapshot on former sanitary crises and fake news
Disclaimer: I hope you will find charming when I occasionally spill over the limits of my English as
a second language.
Although this
generation faces an unprecedented sanitary crisis (COVID-19), unfortunately
pandemics are part and parcel of human history. We all remember the devastating
sanitary crises causes by the bubonic plague or cholera that decimated Europe
during Middle Ages. And...