Well, this year was a doozy!!! It truly gave 2020 a run for its money. Things pretty much imploded, here and in Ethiopia. There were times that even music disinterested me, or simply felt…

Let’s try to not projectile vomit at the mere mention of ‘looking back at this year.’ If anything, music (and other forms of entertainment) has been the thread by which we (I) are ~hanging…

Nostalgia is always at a high at the end of the year, so it’s certainly on swole at the end of the/THIS DECADE. Alas, just like that, the 2010s are soon over! Because music…

When inspiration is high, so can creative output… was such apparently the opposite in 2019?? Whether the past few years provided enough musical goodness to runneth over into this year, or political/social optimism waned…

The holiday season is upon us.  If you find yourself in Addis Ababa and longing for a bit of the holiday spirit– as I did when I lived in Ethiopia – the distance can…

In the early days, weeks, months, years of grief, grappling with what life-altering event happened can leave you breathless and helpless, especially if you’ve never prior experienced a kind of immeasurable depth of loss.…

To commemorate coming up on the one-year anniversary of completely getting my life in Paris, I want to recollect some of the awesome experiences I had in the enchanted city. Admittedly, Paris had never…

Every year I do this thing where I inflict pain upon myself by “selecting” and “ordering” my favorite songs of the year. I’ve been doing it since 2011 but have been selecting my favorite…

My name is Meron and this is a place for my hodge-podge of musings. Here, find random thoughts from a girl influenced by culture, art, and much more. Consider this a natural progression from…