Archive - Mentatrix

What a Hurricane Destroys and Creates

Hurricane Lothar in the Black Forest (1999) is a disaster turned restoration story. How people can replace loss with new life, turn devastation into a…

May 12

Versions of Goodbye

From the positive varnish to the bare truth. Learning to say I made a mistake might put out the shame or guilt, more than attributing it to fate, or…

May 5

April 2024

Run for Your Life

Fictional story set in communist Romania of the 80s, which tells about repressing emotions as the way to be strong. An invisible hero story.

Apr 28

Choose Your Journey: the World

What's your deepest aspiration? In this piece, it's the connection with the world and its people, opportunities, means.

Apr 21

Connecting Journeys, Connecting Texts

Wrapping up three short texts on connection, this final piece connects the journeys of our aspirations by connecting distinct texts into one.

Apr 21

Choose Your Journey: the Mystery

What's your aspiration? In this piece, it's the connection to the transcendent mystery of our beings.

Apr 21

Choose Your Journey: the Self

What's your deepest aspiration? In this piece, it's the connection to your Self.

Apr 21

A Country of One

And the many shades of silence

Apr 14

Dead-Night Visitors

An Invisible Hero story

Apr 7

March 2024

A Miracle in a Tree

Mindful Wanderer #2

Mar 31

The Editor Is Always Right. Even When She Isn’t

I just got back my manuscript from my freelance editor. It’s a second draft of a novel set in the 1980s Romania, behind the Iron Curtain, whose main…

Mar 24

Children Recreated for Life

Mar 17

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