Every evening, I struggle with writing my daily post here. I don't have any new ideas or things to tell. It's the same daily routine. The only update is that I had the webinar yesterday. It went

What do you do when you miss someone? I miss my niece and nephew when I travel far from them due to work. I talk to them on my sister's phone but the internet sometimes sucks and after a few failed

One of the haunted thoughts I have is that my depression would scare people away from me. They would slip away one by one until none of them would be by my side. I know no one likes to deal with

Thanks to Women Beyond Silence, I'm having the chance to talk about hearing loss in a webinar after tomorrow. It's going to be my first online presentation at all. I'm so excited about it and about

After having gone offline yesterday, I checked my phone this morning. I almost missed nothing. No messages or emails from friends or even family. I felt like I could just disappear and no one would

Estaba offline ayer. Seguí leyendo el libro que empecé más de dos semanas. Mother To Mother/ Madre a Madre. Es de la escritora sudafricana Sindwie Magona. Lo terminé hoy por la mañana. Era muy

I'm going offline for the whole day tomorrow. I feel like I waste my time every day doing nothing. I'm not on social media anymore (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, X) but still the time slips away

Tengo que tomar decesiones sobre algunas cosas en mi vida. ¿Voy a cuidar a mi madre o no? Mi hermana puede cuidar a mi madre después de terminar su trabajo en la escuela. Yo podría cuidarla por las

In my post "To Zobayda", I wondered how different Iran would be if the 1953 coup hadn't occurred. The current authoritanian regime came to power after a series of Western intervention in the

It's one of those nights when everything feels so heavy. My depression takes control and I don't know where to hide away. I wish I could sleep and never wake up again. Or to have all my memories

I sent a message to Zobayda a week ago on Telegram, checking on her right after I read about Iranian demonstrations. Due to the communication shutdown in Iran, I haven’t heard back from her yet. I

I wrote this post below about my mother. Have you got the impression that she died? Thankfully, she's alive. I just meant I lost her due to dementia. Do you think the title is confusing and I should

A few days ago, I came across the term SAD, seasonal affective disorder. It's a kind of depression that some people experience during winter. SAD has the same symptoms like depression, plus some

¿Podrías ayudarme entender los fragmentos o palabras siguientes en bold, por favor? "Las reuniones, no digamos las manifestaciones, están prohibidas y en los últimos dos años hemos observado cómo se

I was firmly holding a boat stair while someone was trying to forcefully make me let go of it. What's the verb for that action? I don't know how I can explain it better. they pull your hand away?

ZZ wears many hats. She worked as a translator, a QA reviewer, a housekeeper, and a pet sitter (or: Her jobs varied between translation, QA, housekeeping and pet-sitting). She also volunteered on

Leí un artículo muy, muy interesante sobre Walter Rodney y sus obras y luchas contra el colonialismo. Aquí son algunos párrafos de ello: "...Cómo Europa subdesarrolló a África se enfrenta a la

I can’t pinpoint precisely the day when everything with my mother had shifted. There’s no specific day when I can say that’s when I lost my mother. Maybe I can consider the day she was diagnosed with

I'm feeling unwell. I was thinking of skipping the daily writing task on Journaly but I'm pushing myself to complete it now. My day started with going to the local market where I bought spinach,

Me duele la cabeza desde la mañana. ¡No sé por qué! Quizás porque no he dormido bien anoche. O quizás no he bebido suficiente agua. O quizás debido al mal oler de la gata. Tengo sinusitis y cuando