🕗Timp de citit: 3 minuteInspired by Michel Foucault’s question, *What Is an Author?* explores the subtle difference between writing and authorship. Over a night spent working on a manuscript, fictional characters, punctuation marks, and the hours invested in a single page take on lives of their own. A reflection on creativity, control, and the freedom to let characters move at their own pace.

🕗Timp de citit: 2 minuteUn eseu de octombrie. Trei respingeri, o cană de ceai și un dans în familie. Unele lucruri sunt un fleac. Altele schimbă măsura timpului.

🕗Timp de citit: 2 minuteIn my twenties and thirties, I didn’t like Simone de Beauvoir. In my late forties, I read The Woman Destroyed.

🕗Timp de citit: 3 minuteTrauma does not fall into a void. It lands on ground already prepared by silence. An essay on HUNGER by Rixane Gay and on why silence often feels safer than speech.

🕗Timp de citit: 3 minuteA reflective essay on The Promise of Dawn, exploring maternal devotion, the sacred, and the Self that never had the chance to be born.

🕗Timp de citit: 3 minuteA contemplative reflection on Elie Wiesel’s *A Mad Desire to Dance*, exploring trauma, fragmented identity, memory, and healing through compassion and empathetic witnessing.

🕗Timp de citit: 2 minuteAn essay on neuroscientist Candace Pert and the connection between emotions, the body, and consciousness through the science of neuropeptides.

🕗Timp de citit: 2 minuteReflections on A Certain Mr. Piekielny by François-Henri Désérable, exploring memory, Holocaust remembrance, and Europe’s moral responsibility.

🕗Timp de citit: 3 minuteAn essay on Boualem Sansal’s novel The German Village, examining political and religious fanaticism, mass manipulation, and collective amnesia.

🕗Timp de citit: 2 minuteA reflective essay on Karolina Ramqvist’s Bear Woman, exploring isolation, survival, and the quiet strength of female resilience.

🕗Timp de citit: 2 minuteAn essay inspired by Lulu Miller’s book about normality, social order, and vulnerability. About what happens when the world is defined by those who leave no room for ambiguity — and about those who don’t fit into definitions.