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Neil Chethik is speaker, author and expert specializing in men’s lives and family issues. He is the author of two acclaimed books: VoiceMale: What Husbands Really Think About Their Marriages, Their Wives, Sex, Housework and Commitment (Simon & Schuster 2006), and FatherLoss: How Sons of All Ages Come To Terms With the Deaths of Their […]

Photo: Albena Popova Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland – Say It Right Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

Kerana Angelova Photo: HaPe_Gera Caterpillars wriggle And creep fluffily It’s difficult to believe Their mother is the butterfly With oriental eyes Her wings made of ashes and beams of light Her flight above oval meadows As aslant as the dance of souls Butterflies have such a lot of Sky to fly And What a lot […]

Photo: Albena Popova John Paul Young – “Love Is In The Air (1978)”

Photo: ntlam *** The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. *** Photo: mrlins *** The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written. *** Photo: g-hat

Photo: Albena Popova Loreena McKennitt – “La Serenissima”

An interview with painter Eva-Maria Schmitt by Dessislava Berndt Translation: Dessislava Berndt Photo: Marc Jahnen Eva-Maria Schmitt – “Whoever loves to paint, will paint everywhere” Eva, how did painting become a major part of your life? I’m painting since I can think. o.T Who or what has/had influence on your work? Actually everything which belongs […]

Photo: Albena Popova Barry White – “Love’s Theme”

Petia Petkova’s interview with the photographer Pavel Badzhakov /Pavzo/ Translation by Maria Aladzhova “I was born in the most beautiful city of Bulgaria – Plovdiv – 31 and a half years ago, in the month of the most horned sign, so of course all of my sentences start with the word “I”… My occupation has […]

Photo: Albena Popova Perpetuum Jazzile – “Bee Gees Medley”

Ivan Hristov (created as part of the Word Express Project organised by Literature Across Frontiers with support from the British Council and the Culture Programme of the European Union, translated from the original by Angela Rodel) Why did we have to read in a MALL? Maybe it would’ve been more interesting to read in the […]

Photo: Albena Popova Enya – “Caribbean Blue”

Photo: Albena Popova Dire Straits – “Romeo & Juliet”

By Changming Yuan Photo: kevindooley we chinamen, half and quarter chinamen children of eight or sixteenth chinamen constantly pounded with a peculiar pride over our ancestry’s four great inventions: the first was paper to transcribe ancient ballads but later often used to give ultimata to your emperors also the printing technique to transmit sages’ teachings […]

Photo: Albena Popova Savage Garden – “I Knew I Loved You”

Roumen Leonidov From The Night of the Salesman Photo: DerrickT In an empty room a little boy is sitting cross-legged With its back to us. The child is naked, it is obvious he is resting his chin On an elbow, thinking. The square of the floor rises Into a cone, the room turnes into a […]

Photo: Albena Popova Stivie Wonder – “Free”

Photo: Albena Popova Michael Buble – “Feeling Good”

Christina Lovin Photo: Ctd 2005 I wanted to write something deep, but your eyes are only blue: that color of October oceans or the clear skies of May, though not so fathomless. Your gaze holds more these tidal pools reflecting August’s rain-thirsty heaven and flocks of greedy gulls. Knowing them to be too shallow, too […]

Photo: scotthudson *** A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. *** Photo: wili