A couple of years ago, I had an epiphany about birthdays. I haven’t ever been the kind of person who spares no expense for her birthday celebration, as many people do in my country, México. …

In Spanish, I would offer the word “aferrarse” in this context. “Aferrarse” comes from latin ferrum, which means iron, and it gives the idea of holding, grasping or hanging on something so strongly as with iron chains or fetters. …

Not so long ago, I started rock climbing again. I think that the more you live experiences related to certain topic, the more your brain works in that language. That happened to me when I was getting coding lessons. …

A couple of years ago, I started celebrating my birthdays doing some social work for my community (if you want to know why or how it all started, click here). This year, I had a more environmentalist perspective. Months ago, I visited a dam in a small city near my…