by Antonina Mamzenko | Jan 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Around this time last year I wrote about not making any New Year’s resolutions. How it was, in fact, crazy that we became conditioned to make them at the gloomiest part of the year (I took the paywall off that post – you’re welcome to read it and share your own...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Dec 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Several authors and creatives I follow recently announced, with fanfare, that they are leaving Instagram… only to confess in the next breath that they are, actually, just giving the keys to a member of a team who will still continue posting important updates on their...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Dec 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’ll start with a confession. I don’t celebrate Christmas. Not really. Hashtag awkward. I’m sure pretended to for years, in an effort to assimilate, to be like everyone else. But if I’m honest with myself, I don’t actually care all that much. I grew up in the Soviet...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Dec 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
‘Tis the season for looking back at the year past – and planning for the year to come. For me, it includes considering which projects I want to start showing to people at portfolio reviews, to get important feedback and also to get myself and my work in front of...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Nov 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Frankly, I don’t know what to write. I’m battling a low level cold and, you know, the crisis of humanity, so all my thoughts are incoherent, fragmented. Nothing I can say or do feels important right now, but I’m trying to fight this feeling, getting back to what I...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Oct 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
At the end of last year I took a memoir writing class. I wasn’t – and still am not – planning on writing a memoir, but I wanted to (a) get back to more creative writing which I loved when I was younger (and which I abandoned out of fear of sharing my work...
