Oh, 2022. If only I knew how much I’d learn about life in my 30th year on this planet Earth. I learned what disappointment is. I faced people’s selfishness. I met pure cruelty and empty narcissism. Also ignorance (gosh, some people really are just clueless and live under a rock)…

When I was a teenager studying English back at school, I thought the word “girlfriend” stood for a female partner with which you’re in a romantic relationship. Back in 2009 when I moved to the USA I learned that wasn’t true. Growing up in a society where women’s friendship is…

This is about my dad. The man who taught me to be strong, independent, stubborn. The man who never tells his wife or daughters that he loves them but who cares a great deal about the happiness and safety of his girls. My relationship with dad is one complex ball…

It is unfortunate how easy people can lose touch with those who used to be close to them. (I actually wrote this sentence above more than a year ago and without having anything else to add I kept it in my Drafts for all this time) I do not remember…

This has become such a popular phrase, it’s getting annoying (to me at least)! …

Ah, this is something that just hit my mind and I want to vent. I live in Moscow on a regular basis. However, I visit my hometown Kazan a lot because all my family and some my friends live there. I spend at least 4 days in Kazan at a…

I was getting coffee before work one day. It was pouring outside, and people were grumpy, and the strong wind did not help the situation at all, but there was something I felt happy about. Not sure what it was exactly but that warmth kept coming out of me making…

Even adults want this. Ever since I was 16 years old I’ve had the luck and privilege to travel the world alone. It is exciting, it is fun, sometime absolutely terrifying and stressful but, overall, it all comes back to going back where your home and loved ones are. Well…

It matters to me. Being almost 26 you unintentionally start thinking that ‘maybe it is time to build a family’. That could be because I come from a pretty conservative family, or because society in my country has the life cycle set up like this, I can’t tell for sure…