I was in love with reading at first. I started reading at the age of four and practically did not stop for 14 years. Every extra second I found was dedicated to reading. Writing came later. I had only written in my diaries for the first 24 years of my life, but then blogs became …
Category Archives: Life
Paper Planes
It was in the fifth grade when the paper plane craze started. Everyday during recess, we pulled a page out of our notepads and made a paper plane, each of us hoping to send it further than our classmates’. Every evening, we went home and worked on our designs. That was when I first heard …
Sun Tzu’s Art of Project Management
Neil deGrasse Tyson has mastered the art of explaining complicated topics to a non-technical crowd. For that reason, I follow him and his speeches. He once explained String Theory on the RadioLab podcast by describing the movement of his fingers. I could not see him on a radio show but still followed the motions perfectly …
The Meaning of Life, Copenhagen Version
For as long as humans existed, so did the argument over the definition of “art”. What constitutes art, what do you consider art, and why Picasso’s attempt at the destruction of all things holy is considered an art, while my three-year-old’s doodling is just that: doodling. I am no authority on the matter. Neither do …
Da Vinci and the Canada Geese
In Da Vinci’s beautiful biography by Walter Isaacson, there is a small portion that is dedicated to St. Jerome in the Wilderness. Maestro started the depiction of St. Jerome’s distress in the Syrian desert in 1480. He drew the man with the rock in his hand, conveyed the feeling in his face to the viewers, …
In the Beginning
I never claimed to be a great writer, but I have always written. In the hindsight, my writings over the years were always a form of expression. Blogs came to life when I was in my early 20s and I started one like all my peers. Like any 20-something year old, the subject usually revolved …