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They called it the Spanish Revolution

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Top 5 New Shows to Make You Hug Your TV Set

Has your couch-ridden life become a bore? Do Girls, Grey’s Anatomy and Homeland not suffice anymore, or are you weeping inconsolably after Fringe’s grand finale? OK, maybe you couldn’t really…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

The United States of American't Dating

“Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way,” says Harry to Sally. I never thought that to be true. Then I…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Fear and self-loathing in middle school

The classroom rings with cheers, laughter and loud thumps. Everybody is clustered towards the front; they all want a desk with a view. A tiny 7-year-old girl is being pushed…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Forgiveness as a foreign concept

Shrovetide, or the Orthodox Sunday of Forgiveness, takes place seven weeks before Easter. It’s the one day of the year when we actually call people up and tell them we’re…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

I can’t zip up that cliché

“I’m sorry, this stereotype doesn’t fit me. Do you happen to have a bigger one,” is something I never say. Yet every time people size me up and try to…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

A farewell to family harms

“I will be deeply saddened,” my grandmother said when I told her that I’ll be looking for a job abroad after I graduate.

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

My Flinstonian emotions

The nurse and I argue. She insists that the reason for my upset stomach is a stomach bug. Finally, I spit it out: I confess it’s probably stress. “Oh, I’m…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

You Just Never Smile

Our ability to smile sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Or at least the part that’s not on 9GAG. Our inability to smile, however, sets us…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Distance is not what makes it a marathon

It was Marathon Monday this week in Boston, so I went out and watched as hundreds of people struggled to make it to the 26th mile. As the crowd cheered…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

A Smoker Without a Cause

It’s the early evening and I’m on the train home. Two guys in their late teens sit behind me. They’re having a profound conversation about parties and underage hangovers. “Eww,…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

How to read a Balkan man’s tattoos

While tattoos are not as popular in the Balkans as they are, say, in the U.S., they seem to be something guys frequently talk about getting. Although tattoos are great…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Just Like a Woman: What it's like to be a “Miss” in the Balkans

Last week the French government decided to forever banish the term “mademoiselle” (Eng. Miss or “missy”) from official documents. And while changing one word might not make much of a…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

In Balance We’d Like to Trust

In Western societies lots of kids spend their Sunday mornings attending mass. I, on the other hand, spent mine devotedly watching circus performances on state TV. My attention was divided…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Person of the Year: The Complainer

Last year millions of people underwent the transformation from proper nouns to active verbs. All over the world revolution was the watchword, and those who recognized it were let in…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Of Little Gifts and Lesser Sense

The “season of giving”. That phrase makes me feel a bit sad, because it suggests that giving is supposed to be a seasonal thing.

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Home is where my suitcase is

“Going home for the holidays?” the security guard asks while checking my legwarmers for firearms.

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Balkdvertising values

As I sit patiently in the chair at my dentist’s office, I listen to him rant about  how in the 70's his dad used the same materials he finds in…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Fighting the cultural boggart of Balkan identity

“You look Eastern European. Are you a Communist?” asked a random drunk guy, who looked overly satisfied with his clever delivery.

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Your conversation has been decaffeinated: Coffee culture in America

Coffee makes my world go round, but those who know me might say that it’s an outrageous understatement. The rant about fast-food coffee has been almost incessant in recent years,…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Pack up your troubles, leave your blues behind

If someone had told me a year ago that I would be having a light saber duel with a Lebanese chick on the Boston subway, I would have given them…

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

We’re All Famous on the Internet

  Some weeks ago, CNN reported that people should refrain from twitting in the heat of the moment because it can cost them their friends and even their job.

By: Silviya Krasteva

 

Silviya Krasteva


I'm a character from too many books and a few good movies.

When I was a kid, I wanted my mom to buy me a spaceship because I was mortified by the thought that aliens might invade us and I wouldn’t have a back-up plan for escaping. Twenty four years later, I still don’t have one, and I wholeheartedly envy people who are good at planning. So this is me, Silviya or Sue, however you prefer, a currently in-between-jobs writer-cartoonist-photographer with a hot passion for coffee (mocha), clever headlines, modern literature and TV series; with a degree in journalism and mass communications, and fine arts and working toward another one in advertising… And as demonstrated, years later and numerous classes in writing, I still can’t resist a good semiparagraph sentence.

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