Today’s Obsession With Youth and Beauty

Today’s Obsession With Youth and Beauty

In the days of our grandparents or grand-grandparents, never did they have any issue with growing old. They accepted this process as a part of life. In those days, spouses were chosen not for good looks but because of their character features and industry. Now, the...
Get off the Hamster Wheel

Get off the Hamster Wheel

Unless a person is in deep self-denial and convinces herself that all is well existing in the rat race, most people stay there because of fear. They are afraid to jump off the wheel because the future looks uncertain. It’s also to do with their priorities. Those...
Reflections on Goethe’s Faust

Reflections on Goethe’s Faust

I’ve just finished narrating the full first part of Goethe’s Faust. This was very enjoyable to narrate, and it has a lot to do with the translation I’ve selected. Since this is a German work, the quality of the reading very much depends on the...