Jun 13, 2019 | Best of, Over Coffee
“I opened up an art centre with a friend this January. It’s definitely out of my comfort zone, but I would regret it so much if I didn’t do it. The hardest part has been learning to live with uncertainty. Some days you sleep. Some days you don’t. Some days you...
May 23, 2019 | Best of, Over Coffee
“I have this little notebook. Whenever I meet somebody who I get close to, I ask them to write me a message in their native language. The rules are they can’t tell me what it means, and I can’t use Google Translate. I have to wait until I meet somebody else who...
May 16, 2019 | Best of, Over Coffee
“We’re raising our son with four languages. I speak to him in Swedish, my husband speaks in Polish, we communicate in English at home and at nursery he speaks Spanish. He’s just two and a half. We moved to Valencia when my son was very little. It was so stupid,...
Apr 25, 2019 | Best of, Over Coffee
“I was quite fat when I was younger. A lot of my family have weight problems, so when I lost a lot of weight it felt like I was free. But the hardest thing is maintaining it. I didn’t realise that the scary part of being slim is that you’ve got the possibility...
Mar 7, 2019 | Best of, Over Coffee
The last six months I’ve been experiencing this typical mid-twenties crisis. You know, once you’ve graduated and then you’re like “wtf do I do now?” I was in a nine year relationship, we had two cats, and we were looking to buy an apartment. Yet I was unhappy. I was...
Feb 28, 2019 | Best of, Over Coffee
When I was nineteen I was going through Wikipedia and I found a diagnosis for my eye condition, achromatopsia. It was something I was born with but I had really peculiar symptoms and no doctor could ever find a diagnosis. You have photoreceptors in your eye made up of...
