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This Is Not Advice

Sandy Braz

Essays about love, death, grief, sleep, and Lisbon.

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How to Get Over Friendship Breakups.

I was eating lunch on a roadtrip through the Algarve. I ordered a hot dish of periwinkles and rice. My grandfather, from Alentejo, once told me that we eat and drink hot things to neutralize the heat of the summer. That was one of the few p...

10 days ago
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I Could Not Sleep So I Thought About This and Wrote it For You

Costa da Caparica, Portugal

This is not advice. No one is the expert in who you are but you. Other people’s projections are often disguised as well-intentioned advice. But unless someone has been through what you are seeking advice about o...

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How To Be Alone.

Paris. June, 2011. Alone.

A Sunday in late June in Paris. 2011.

I am 31 and married but slowly starting to not be into the idea of being attached to anyone.

This fucking scares me. He is a good guy. And everyone tells me that I am lucky....

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Lisbon Lovers: The Artist.

It was three weeks of a romance with an artist from Lisbon. Exciting. Visually perfect.

He made art for a living and lived his art for effect. Well-known for his work, although I did not know it at the time we met. To me, he was just a guy...

2 months ago
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A Strange Dinner With Strangers in Alentejo.

photo: back in Lisbon digesting the indigestible conversation.

I’d been writing quietly in my room when she called. Looking back, I should have listened to my immediate instinct, which was not to pick up the phone. But I did. And an invita...

2 months ago
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  • Sandy Braz

    I’m a writer in Lisbon. I have interviewed and observed strangers for 25 years. Nothing I write is advice or even advisable. Essays about love, death, grief, sleep, regrets and Lisbon. Thanks for subscribing.

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