Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Life

  • From face-to-face, to Facebook

    For the past 6 years I have been working as a freelance translator. I love the job and the flexibility it offers, but I am finding it increasingly hard to live in an increasingly autistic bubble. The lack of social interaction sometimes borders on the unbearable. Of the thirty some agencies I cooperate with on…

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  • The orthodox Easter and the mainstream Bunny

    Life is full of strange moments. The absurdity of life becomes implacably apparent when you try to explain it to small children. We are part of a minority which celebrates Easter according to the Orthodox tradition, at a later date than our Catholic brethren. I know the “technical” explanation why that is so, but how…

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  • Fat issues

    Ok, so I don’t fit into my old pants anymore. I am two inches wider around the hips now and have added three inches to my waist. Pregnancy has a tendency of doing that to you.  All this while I have been lying to myself that, come summer, I will somehow, through sheer magic, become a sylph…

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