Stella Achenbach

This is the beginning of the story of how a ginormous metal flower in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a stickered lamppost in Condesa, Mexico City, became my favorite travel souvenirs. I take a lot of photos when I travel, just like anyone else, but almost none of them end up where people expect them to be. They rarely make it to my social channels, and they definitely don't live in neatly organized folders on my phone. Instead, they reappear later, cropped, mirrored, and disguised as ornaments ......

There's a moment every January when the timeline for creators like us splits in two. Half of us are manifesting "six figures, dream clients, soft life." The other half is quietly opening their banking apps and subscription lists like a horror game. This piece is for the second group: the ones who want the magic but are troubled by the math and by how to bring order to the chaos of their own making. The ones who are tired of treating their creative career like a vibes‑only experiment and are r......

Looking back, 2017 was a year of personal and professional changes for me. One of them was that I followed my partner's professional calling, and we relocated all that we had across the ocean to settle in Lima, Peru. While the decision wasn't easy, it didn't feel hard either, even though my Spanish was at the level of being able to say "hola." The truth is, Lima had a lot less of everything back then, and while some negative aspects might have grown over the years, others have improved. Peru ......