By: Gabriela Yareliz Waiting is one of the worst feelings. I remember when I was a kid, when I knew my friend Liz was coming to visit, I would sit by the window and wait. That was always a terrible idea because she and her family always arrived later than planned. I would sit by the window, watching intently;Continue reading “While You Wait”
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This Week’s Picks: September 21, 2014
By: Gabriela Yareliz [I thought I would bring this back for a minute. People still look up my old weekly compilations.] Temperatures are dropping, lines at the Apple Store are forming, and some of us are planning our next moves (literally). Interview Season One ended, and now Interview Season Two is beginning. Jewish holidays are liberating someContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: September 21, 2014”
To Live Longer, Walk Slowly
“Days of slow walking are very long; they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints. Hurrying means doing several things at once, and quickly: this; then that; and then something else. When you hurry, timeContinue reading “To Live Longer, Walk Slowly”
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Tuesday Badinage
By: Gabriela Yareliz It was a spring day today. I was trapped inside for the entirety of it. In the forecast is: snow. Yes! (Sarcasm dripping all over this people). It seems like we will be experiencing the four seasons this week. New Yorkers are simply living through it and trying to just “let itContinue reading “Tuesday Badinage”
His will in you
“Had Abraham stayed in his safe and secure surroundings with Sarah (at that time known as Sarai) and the rest of his family, he would never have reached his destiny, which was to be conduit of God’s blessings to all families of the earth. Likewise, had Abraham decided to wait until God gave him theContinue reading “His will in you”
“Me gustan las gentes que ven la vida con ojos distintos de los demás, que consideran las cosas de otro modo que la mayoría.” ― Carmen Laforet, Nada
Manuscript Found in Accra
Tengo ganas de ti: Hache y Gin
From: Tengo Ganas de Ti, a Federico Moccia book/film “Gin, una chica que hace lo que le da la gana y no le da explicaciones a nadie.”-H
