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Hands

This evening, I did something that I have never done before and it had my heart racing. It’s not the nervous kind of heart racing. Buying a piece of art is a whole new kind of heart racing-sensation. My man and I (and son) went to an exposition by an artist from Brazil. I’ve met the […]

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The years

On the train, someone I know happened to come and sit next to me. She exclaimed, "oh isn't this world simply great!" It was a meant to be kind of thing. But what -precisely – was meant to be? I now wonder. I had met her before I went to Brazil. She heads a foundation […]

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Partial truths

All right, this is going to come across as navelgazing so don't say I didn't warn you in advance. The thing that's most surprising about writing is how people feel they know everything about you when they've read your work. I suppose I understand why. In general, people take what has been printed on a […]

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Meanwhile …

From: mail@aliefka.comTo: producerinLA@whosenameIcannotdiscloseSubject: Hello – an update Hi producer in LA, It's been a while and I thought I'd email you to let you know how things are moving forward since my return from Brazil. I believe I mentioned I was working on a new screenplay with director Yan Ting Yuen? It's called My Sister […]

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I believe I can fly

I started flamenco classes again and because I had been away for a while, I wondered how to go about this. Reaching too high can be very frustrating. Yet, sitting comfortably at a level of skill beneath yours may lead to arrogance and the inevitable laziness. So here's what I did: I took the beginners […]

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Passion

Today, I received a copy of a magazine which published one of my articles. It's a magazine for coin collectors. On skimming through the magazine I felt a pang of jealousy: if only I could feel such passion for collecting something, anything. I envy the excitement a collector must experience when running into an object […]

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Star sprinkled spectrum

Apparently an article was published about "me" in the Brazilian newspaper O’Globo last Saturday. Now all I have to do is be as good a writer as Kiran Desai, it seems. Well, I guess I should stop dawdling. Download artikel_oglobo_2.jpg

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A healthy attempt

In an attempt to stop this nonsense of not having been able to write a single scene for my novel since my return from Brazil, I decided to lock myself up in my office. I bought a pre-fab Greek salad at a department store nearby. The bottom layer was made up of milky-white disks. I […]

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Look at it this way

Just now, my sweet (or: other half) emailed me because I had been missing Brazil. He said: "Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."My reply: "I’ll try to remember that when you trade me in for a younger, more exotic, light hearted version of me."

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