After relaying the drama that was unfolding in yet another failed situationship my best friend once asked me, “is this the story you want to tell your kids about how you ended up with their father?” As a storyteller, this question stuck to me and since then I have been…

“the woman in me gracefully let you go but the animal in me was howling and tearing in my skin” — L.E. Bowman If we met a little bit earlier, I would’ve played this differently. I would’ve said yes just to keep you. I’d embrace the ambivalence. I would be…

“It was like coming up for air after months of drowning.” That was how it felt like meeting you. Your presence was a much needed respite from all the heaviness happening all around. I had just gotten over a toxic relationship that unraveled in the middle of a pandemic. …

Walking the road to Santiago de Compostela has always been on this long list of things I would like to accomplish in my lifetime. I had been reading a lot of books about it — mostly written by my favorite authors. …

I was standing at an intersection contemplating whether to turn left or to cross to the other side of the street. Five seconds into my indecision, I looked up and there he was standing at the opposite side of the road. He looks at me and waves. “Stay where you…

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief…” –Charles Dickens, on my dating life I’m kidding, he was actually describing the French Revolution. However, I couldn’t think of…

“I’ve known him for half my life.” I told the waiter at my favourite restaurant when he asked what we were and how we knew each other. We met when we were 16, I don’t remember how and when. My memories of him were mostly made up of watching from…

We went out on five real and perfect dates involving late night walks and long drives out of the city. It was a situationship that had the potential to blossom into a real relationship if only we played our cards right. But as we were walking home from dinner on…

I spent most of my formative years as an athlete. It was at the age of 8 when I first started soccer, playing through high school and some of my years in college. The years of intense training gave me a slender physique and kept my weight at just a…