Truths in the dark

Night is a dangerous time for me. It's when all the deepest truths about myself come to surface, and it seems I can't pretend I don't see them when it's dark. With my eyes opened in the darkest of hours, it feels as if I entered a parallel universe, where my truths and I only …

Painting with the Fox #11 and a little chat about accepting your own (and by “your” I mean “my”) art style

It's been a while here. It's not that I haven't been painting (I'm actually painting more than I was expecting), but I'm not exactly at home (remember the traveling plans?), which means I no longer have access to all those fancy scanning machines and nice computer programs to put my new paintings online. But I'll …

On the culture of smiling and why I hate it so. freaking. much.

I don't hate smiling. I don't hate people who smile. I don't hate people who like people who smile. Everybody should be free to smile and like everything they want to like. What I hate, really, is people who judge other people based on a 30 seconds interaction. And what I hate even more is …

I saw the Moon Rabbit

There was I, terribly bored inside a plane, desperately trying to sleep at least one of my ten hours flight, when I saw the moon in the sky. It was big, round and bright and in it I also saw something I'd heard about just a few days previously: the markings were shaped like a …

Not really a Book review: How To Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell

I’m not going to actually review any of the books. Why? Because, as I previously stated, my love for this series has gone way past the point of review. In my opinion, this series is flawless. It is the most perfect example of storytelling, and I even daresay it ranks higher than Harry Potter and …

This is still not a travel blog…

... even though I am going to travel and might post something about it (but it's not a done deal). I plan on going to Europe and staying there for three months, two in Italy, my family's land, one month in the Nederlands (because I feel like it) and maybe a week in Austria. I have …

Painting with the Fox #7 (and a weird mini exposition of my thoughts about Cressida Cowell’s writing)

As I recently said, I'm rereading the How To Train Your Dragon series and let me tell you, I'm truly obsessed with it. I even decided to take a break and read something else (The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen, for that matter) and I just. can't. do it. After the deep immersion …

Where are the reviews?

There are a couple or more answers to that. First, as I stated in my introduction post, I didn't know what I wanted this blog to be about. I said it would probably be mostly about books, but things really changed, as it often happens in life, and it's possible my priorities will lead me …

Making friends online: why there are no courses about that?

I'd pay. Seriously. (Probably) (I apologize in advance for the mini rant this post is all about. I just had to talk about it) I just created my Instagram account and I have absolutely no idea of what to do with it (which is why I resisted so long in the first place). I'm not …

Creating habits: the incredible Don’t Break The Chain Calendar

When I started reading back in middle school, books were an escape. Whenever I had free time, like lunch or in between classes, I would read. The thing is I only read when I was at the school (meaning no books during weekend and holidays). It worked for years, but then school ended and I …