Fashionzig: second-hand paradise

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Rummaging through the shelves of Leipzig is like a little girl playing dress-up in her grandmother's wardrobe. Sometimes you have to dig deep and wait over ten minutes for the next tram to the next flea market, but finding that perfect piece (ahem, eye hologram necklace) is worth the over ten minute wait.

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Women’s well-meaning meanness

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In my homeland of Brazil, known as Plastic Surgery Capital of the World, one of the worst things one can be – besides old, disabled and black – is fat. Worse still is being a fat woman. And perhaps even worse than that is being told so (nicely) by other women, when image matters so

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“There’s a love at every corner”

I now know what he meant, but it'd take me years to fully appreciate it.

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Nostalgia, books and “The Durrells in Corfu”

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Before parting with my classmates, before embarking for the big adventure called adult life, we enjoyed Corfu in the spring with its sunsets, its old buildings, its incredibly beautiful landscapes.

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