Walk down a corridor of salt with me?

Have you ever been to a mine? How about a salt mine? We have quite a few of them here in Romania! (Want to visit?)

The Salt Mines of Turda, my latest travel article, is up over at Milliver’s Travels today, where I reminisce about my first trip to this salt mine from when I was in fourth grade and compare it to everything that is now new and renovated.

So, will you walk down a corridor of salt with me?

I’m Myth Busting!

Do you know how long ago I wanted a blog post title like the one above?

Well, today I’m over at Milliver’s Travels, doing some myth busting research within my travel article “Truth of Fiction: Are Parisians Rude to Tourists?”

Paris is swarming with tourists!

I did my research before leaving and read several articles on different websites. This one here… read more

Drop by and see if the myth is Plausible, gets Busted or Confirmed.

Then make sure to tell me in the comment section there: Have you been to Paris? What are your impressions? Are Parisians rude to tourists?

The kind of writer who…

In the latest post of the “j’s Journey” series over at Fear of Writing, j asked the readers a question: What kind of writer do you want to be?

I answered in the comment section there. I would also like to share with you here as well, since Life’s a stage is my virtual writing corner.

 

Someone once emailed me months after my publishing a piece of flash fiction that she was still thinking about said piece. Someone just recently noted I understand the role of my characters so well and wrote so succinctly.
Someone else commented that sometimes the most powerful things are stated with just such simplicity – like in my blog post.
Again someone else said that I write so well, he sometimes forgets that English is only one of my languages.
And again someone else told me how my heart definitely comes through loud and clear in all my writing, creative or otherwise.

I want to be the kind of writer who grows and keeps getting such great feedback – because that’s how I know I’m on the right track to becoming the writer I want to be.

 

How about you, what kind of writer do you want to be?

 

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A few weeks ago, I left behind a pick-me-up love letter in an elevator. I am honored to have it included in the Love Letter Vault, and featured on MoreLoveLetters.

Here it is for everyone’s viewing pleasure “For the grey days in Romania…”

Medieval and Natural Gems

Are you up for a walk? To see palaces, beech tree forests, waterfalls, medieval terraced walkways, limestone caves and ponds turned into lakes?

My latest travel article is up over at Milliver’s Travels. It’s about a place and country I haven’t written about before, filled with so much beauty and history.

Go check out Some Medieval and Natural Gems of Lillafüred, Hungary. And… will you also leave it some love while you’re there?

 

PS: I’ve closed the comment section here to make things less confusing.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Ever wondered what Christmastime looks like in other countries? Like in Romania maybe? Like in Kolozsvár, to be more specific?

Milliver’s Travels has gone all out this holiday season and has prepared quite a number of lovely Christmas-y articles for your viewing pleasure.

Here is my very seasonally festive article, about Christmastime in Kolozsvár, complete with lovely photos and music!

Go read it. Listen to it. I’ll wait

Honoring the dead

Let’s talk about dead people, shall we? Well… okay, so not exactly. But close enough.

Today I have a new travel article up at Milliver’s Travels, in which I elaborate on the tradition of Illumination, or the Day of the Dead as it’s more commonly known here in Romania.

Drop by and let me know what you think of this tradition and the overpowering amount of my lovely night shots throughout the article.

See you there

On someone else’s Stage

This will be a bit new to me, since as opposed to a single article, this week I’ll be guest posting for a couple of days over at Vie Hebdomadaires, which isn’t just any other WordPress.com site.

Come check out my performances on someone else’s Stage

On Monday, An endless run, where I think out loud a little bit about endings.  

On Wednesday, I contemplate on The gift of Autumn.

And as a closing on Friday, my #fridayflash, “The life of a dream”, can be found there.