by vanissadrar | Jul 2, 2026 | JOURNALISM
I’ve been drinking coffee for years. Thousands of cups have passed through my hands, each one carrying the same familiar bitterness, the same comforting warmth. I thought I knew its taste by heart. But today was different. Today, for the first time, my coffee...
by vanissadrar | Jul 1, 2026 | JOURNALISM
I’ve come to realize that neutrality is often an illusion. In a world divided by loyalties, people rarely judge you solely by your character or your actions. More often, they judge you by whose side you’re on. The last time I checked, good things seemed to...
by vanissadrar | Jun 30, 2026 | JOURNALISM
Life is often about embracing one challenge only to encounter another. We spend much of our lives believing that we must overcome every obstacle before we can finally be happy. We keep pushing ourselves toward some imagined happy ending, forgetting that, in the...
by vanissadrar | Jun 29, 2026 | JOURNALISM
We tell ourselves that death is part of life, that everyone eventually reaches the end of their journey, and that accepting this is the reasonable thing to do. Yet love rarely follows reason. When someone has become woven into our daily existence, their absence is not...
by vanissadrar | Jun 26, 2026 | BOOKS REVIEWS
I’ll be honest — I went into this book a little skeptical. Tech criticism has become its own cottage industry, and a lot of it follows a predictable script: Silicon Valley bad, the internet broken, democracy endangered, see you in the footnotes. Jonathan...
