@wwaycorrigan It has been said that the first item on the agenda of a newly formed Irish political party is the split. Ireland just doesn’t do unity very well it seems. Borrowing from that, after over eight years of Bogotá as my base, it would seem the first item on my...
Dedicado a mi amigo Jaime Andrés. En el argot popular se dice que la pureza está en la mezcla y justamente esa es mi raza, la criolla. Mi lengua es como la de un Chow Chow, pero mi contextura parece la de un Dóberman y el color de mi pelo parece el de un Pastor […]
@wwaycorrigan OK. I admit it. I’m addicted. For over a year, I thought I had it under control. The discipline and routine that a full-time job gave me saw my dependence on this reduce dramatically. However, then came the double hit. The first was self-inflicted: resigning...
Prácticamente el mundo se detuvo a causa del coronavirus. Afectó a todos los sectores de la sociedad. Pero no frenó el impuso creativo para que desde el arte se tendieran puentes llenos de poesía, sensibilidad y vibración. Hoy en Distractor quiero destacar el trabajo de...
@wwaycorrigan ‘Clean up your own room.’ It’s a sound, longstanding piece of advice, although one that some people these days associate more so with celebrity clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson (he’s slowly coming back to the public domain after an...
El aislamiento preventivo obligatorio (y el desmadre que se ha armado por quebrar las normas para tener aventuras) nos hizo pensar hace unas semanas sobre qué tanto cambiará el valor que le damos al sexo en la vida individual y en pareja tras la crisis del coronavirus. (Ver el...
@wwaycorrigan Rejection is never easy to accept. Nonetheless, like most things in life, the more we experience it, the better we are at dealing with it. Both personally and professionally I’ve had my fair share of rejection. I won’t say that I’m now indifferent...
@wwaycorrigan About the only thing we can be certain of these days is that the uncertainty permeating through practically every sector of society is set to continue for the coming months if not years. Much has been written about the «new normals» we’ll have to live with because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of them, […]
El asunto se pone muy serio. Nos informaron que somos uno de los barrios más peligrosos por el covid-19 en Bogotá. Lo dijo la alcaldesa y ordenó que nadie salga de sus casas. Apenas vi en la pantalla del televisor el nombre de mi barrio quedé estupefacto. Ya sabíamos que...
@wwaycorrigan As most of you regular readers of this blog may have realised, it’s not one that tends to engage in hyperbole. So, in honour of that, here’s the understatement of the year: The coronavirus crisis is having a negative impact on many sectors of the...
