Light in the Bedroom – FIRE
Light is associated with the element of FIRE. Although light in the bedroom is as important as all the other elements, it is not sleep-inducing for most of us. Some people may need…
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The supermarket’s fruit fairy (“I haunt” Series)
I point to the venue where I encountered the mystery girl. “Ladies, this child roamed the exotic fruit section, now ballet dancing, forlorn, next playing guardian of the stall—look, right there! I swear, she interacted with me.”
“Why didn’t you refer the lost child to reception?” the plain clerk says.
Haunted Restaurant: Part 2 (“I haunt” Series)
A ghost hunting night in a fin de siècle palazzo flipped luxury restaurant reveals eerie staff and a basement dark mirror capturing unidentified oddities and personages from a novel, Darxination.
Haunted Restaurant: Part 1 (“I haunt” Series)
A ghost hunting night in a fin de siècle palazzo flipped luxury restaurant reveals eerie staff, baffling ghosts in my novel Darxination, and a spooky dark-crystal mirror in the basement.
Ghost Touch: A ghost created my authentic personage
Ghost touch. Not on your screen, but on your skin. While writing a scene, I gatecrashed my deceased aunt’s soul and summoned a spooky chill from an unworldly north pole.
Shadow Visitor (“I haunt” Series)
Damn shadow. What hellish anatomy sustained its voice? Hell’s pits hid arcane recorders for human speech—in living and dead language. Its spooky source exposed, the shadow lost ground. The stiffer incarnated, the weaker its devious mesh. As stock-still, the doorknob waited. No stir, no squeal.
High School Memory Vial
Teen me beckons. Diva in limelight, fake romance and casino fun. A raving lamb. Teachers and colleagues murmuring reach me from the vial of fragrant memory pearls I carry everywhere. Its label reads: HIGH SCHOOL.
Hotel Story (“I haunt” Series)
I tasted mystery in a spooky hotel room of old Bucharest.
LOVE is a Shared Mystery
What exactly is LOVE, people have always wondered. It is a feeling quite difficult to explain, it is a state of being. People usually say it is hard for them to…
Bedroom Decoration for Better Sleep – WATER
Better sleep can be achieved through a lot of elements that work harmoniously together, including elements of decor. I have been pondering a lot on the effect of the element of…
Decorate Your Bedroom for a Good Night’s Sleep – EARTH
We need to sleep in order to recharge our batteries from the unique source of vital energy in the universe. Not connecting ourselves regularly to this source has a devastating impact on our…
A Simple Way to Eat Healthily, Without Bothering About Diets – Apply LOVE
Dear Next Woman, One way to avoid stress is to concentrate on one thing at a time. Thus you apply the principle of LOVE to everything you do. When you…
Decorate Your Bedroom For a Good Night’s Sleep – AIR
Air is an important element for sleep. Energy flows swiftly through its medium, air suspends and sways, air soars. Air oxygenates your blood, and helps nourish all the cells in…
15 Beauty Sleep Tips for Single Next Woman
Next Woman does not necessarily have to be single, but if and when she happens to be so, she definitely needs her beauty sleep more than ever. Your beauty sleep…
Why Simple Works Better Today
We are born out of complicated things, but we are born simple. Everything that cannot be thoroughly understood seems complicated. By ‘understood’ we mean comprehended and accepted by our conscious…
Calendar of My SELF – Friday, April 8
Impassible salts hovering. Static
A Stop Is Just a Respite to Allow You to Exercise and Go On
Thinking back of my blessed encounter with Edward Barrett Warman’s book, I can single out one particular moment which signaled my being ripe for that encounter. A Stop Is Just…
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