Where would you like to go today?
This is a brief linguistic essay following up on some thoughts and conversations I had while visiting my home city of St. Petersburg, Russia, two weeks ago. As usual, I had just one week and too many things to do. Therefore, I decided that I would meet only with family and a selected few of…
Long time no posting. A lot of things happened that kept me away. I am not sure why all my writing so far is on relationships. There are many other topics of great interest to me, but we will get to them later. Today, I would like to jot down a few thoughts about friendship.…
Funny. In the process of writing my very first blog, I already came up with an idea for the second one. I don’t think I will have time to write very often, but this one seems worth capturing. I have to partially credit ChatGPT for this. I asked it to write a short essay on…
First, a few words on why I started this blog. For as long as I can remember, it has been interesting to me to think about “big questions” – as my favorite book put it, “life, universe, and everything”. And for a long time now, I have been intrigued by the idea of writing those…