2020 has been a slow year in so many ways. It peeled itself slowly, layer after layer, confining us, forcing us to stay with ourselves and finally face what, perhaps, has been swept neatly under the rug. As things are…
5 things that saved August, 2020 – a month in review
OK. I don’t know what happened, but the moment August rolled in, all I wanted to do was burrow inside myself and DO NOTHING. Like, literally nothing. Perhaps, the pandemic with all its consequences had finally hit me? Then, our…
Summertime checklist – quarantine edition + a FREE printable list
This has been a strange and mixed-up summer. With the pandemic still raging and for many of us, the thought of traveling to foreign lands a distant, uncertain endeavor, we are called to focus on the present and what is…
How I’ve maintained my sustainable shopping habits during quarantine
The COVID-19 global pandemic brought many changes, some of them including new ways to shop. Out of the sudden, disposable masks and gloves were required, as well as single use plastic bags. As the weeks progressed and the quarantine/self-isolation continued,…
4 self-love practices for hard times that we don’t often talk about
2020 has been, so far, a year of reckoning. From the Australian bush fires, the COVID-19 global pandemic, to the escalating police brutality against African Americans and the subsequent protests and altercations, we are forced to take a good look…
Things I have been loving – quarantine edition
Dear friends, How quietly and strangely the changes that forever shape us creep into our lives… As I am writing this, here in Virginia, USA, we have been in quarantine/self-isolation since Friday, the 13th of March. Two months to the…