Author: doodledweller
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House of Ten Thousand Frames
They say that memory is not reliable; but it is all we have to tell the story of our life, to remind us of who we are. Whenever the Carpenters’ Yesterday Once More comes on, I come back to my 8-year-old self at my friend’s house, listening over a cassette tape. The Beatles’ And I…
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February 14th
February 14th is Valentine’s day. It’s the day to celebrate love, and love is a complicated topic. Like the concept of time, the concept of love has been debated, over and over, since the dawn of time. Everyone wants to be loved, but you can’t make others love you. You can, however, learn to give…
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The Fourth Dimension
“All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages.”–William Shakespeare We perceive our world in four dimensions, constituting space and time. The first three dimensions make space, but it’s the fourth that fascinates the…
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Machine Learning for Creative Writing
I think that most of us like certainty. We prefer to know what we will do today, tomorrow, and the days after. We like novelty too, but only when we are mentally prepared for it, which is a form of certainty in itself. Uncertainty begets anxiety, a state of mind so disdained that it is…
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On Writing
I started writing while traveling. It was useful to thwart boredom during times without much to distract my eyes or my ears, and there were a lot of those times. Then it was an effective way to tie down my thoughts, capturing what I saw and felt at the moment. For an introvert, writing is…
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When Life Gives You Lemons
When live gives you lemons, make lemonade;better yet, make marmalade. A common analogy is to make the best of a situation, but I’d rather interpret it as to look for the sweet and fabulous outcomes of all things. Because if you were going to be a fruit, to be a lemon is among the best…
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Sweet Potatoes
The sweet potato is not a pantry staple like the potato, yet not sufficiently exotic to catch the culinary trendy train like kale or quinoa. Baked into a sweet casserole during the holidays, snubbed by the pumpkin pie like a wallflower, it fills the void in between brown sugar studded ham and stuffed turkey, gravy…
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New Year’s Resolution
Before I get around to proclaiming my new year’s resolution, I should tell you about my favorite corner of earth. I find myself returning to this part of the world time and time again. The first country I visited was Costa Rica, then Argentina and a short stint in Chile; after that, Brazil, and the…
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Journey through Siberia
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”-Anthony Bourdain…
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