Death is so final, and I’m not sure how to deal with that. I’ve always known that, in theory. I first grasped the meaning of death when I was 9 years old, the year my grandfather passed away. I remember it taking a while for me to understand that I will never see him again,…
Author: Lara Elsergany
Human, just like me
Everyday from 9 to 6, I sit across from a mother of two. She is the embodiment of a superwoman, and often reminds me of my own mother in how she jumped back from her second pregnancy and waltzed straight into the office like she hadn’t just given life to a tiny new human. She’s…
Lost In The City: A long winding road to nowhere
I could feel my mind going fuzzy around the edges as I drove down the same left lane, on the same speed, in the same direction to be reunited with a friend who means quite a lot to me. The anxiety that I’d felt the night before about the prospect of driving on my own…
Happiness in the city: reaching rock-bottom to feel alive again
Exactly a month ago, I wrote a (granted, very dramatic) journal entry titled ‘who stole my happiness?’. It wasn’t the first unhappy entry though.
Interview: Julia Stone (Of Angus and Julia Stone)
Published on Drunken Werewolf Magazine “When I watched Angus perform, He shone.” That’s how Julia Stone describes the second half of her two-man act Angus and Julia Stone after watching her brother perform solo during their two year break away from each other. Just like the soft, story-telling nature of the singer/songwriter’s voice, the course…