GERSON DE JESUS

Two weeks ago you said goodbye to me at the airport, leaving an immense void in my heart. It made me want to catch the first flight back to Brazil. But sitting there on a bench, waiting for my crying to calm down so I could take the Airtrain back to Jamaica Plain, I remembered you telling […]

Last weekend I stopped. I stopped at once. I spent the whole weekend in bed, tossing and turning, bored. Trying to find in a book, a movie and even in the landscape the way out of my physical isolation and my mind swamped with thoughts. The Friday leading up to that weekend, I went to bed late again after

July 31st was the last day on the job. I resigned a few days earlier, believing that I was preparing to move to Canada. I would only have a month to organize myself and restart the projects, set aside in recent months due to lack of time. The first days of “vacation” came as a relief. I was

The Cinderella looking for a Prince Charming is not just looking for a partner to share her life with. She\’s actually looking for someone who, with all her perfection, completes the missing part. The prince\’s charm would actually represent her ability to make us happy, giving us all the security, protection and love we need. In the post

People do shit! We kiss those who don\’t want to (or those who insist a lot – we\’re human, aren\’t we), we have sex with those who don\’t want to, in reality, because, deep down, who we want doesn\’t even know how we feel. Often times, they don\’t even call. We wait. Expect a text

We know, deep down we know, when something is not for us. We meet someone and in a short time, if not in the first few minutes, we know that that guy or that relationship is not for us. We get a job and in a few days we already know that place is not for us. We

Even though I was starting to strongly believe in astral hell and I didn\’t have my thoughts in place since Christmas, I couldn\’t help but think about my New Year\’s wishes when the 31st of December knocked on my door.The only problem is that, like last year, I didn\’t quite know what to order. A Green

Learning to own my desires and my nose was not an easy task for me. Never was. Before Prince Charming, I hid behind my insane rationality in order not to perceive my most intimate desires. Feeling wasn\’t me. Feeling hurts. So I was never the type to have sex with the guy on the first night. “What if he doesn\’t want

At 3 am that night I finished decorating and tidying up my room. I moved apartments two weeks ago and was emotionally drained trying to organize myself and at the same time find the best way to make my room my home sweet home. My little corner to write, read, watch movies and be with myself (which

As soon as I became the perfect, nerdy, boring teenager, I decided that I would go to one of the best universities in the country. I\’m not sure if it was a decision stimulated by teachers, if stimulated by my low self-esteem, which always needed to prove something to others, or a little bit of both. All