Tekky (@teknon)
I am having a full-blown love affair with words. Also on read.cash as tekky
Where Did the Whimsy Go?
I wish I could take a walk one day and stumble upon one of those fountains where people toss coins and make wishes. I don’t know if things like that still exist now, it was a childhood movie magic ...
How Much of Your Financial Struggle Is Actually Your Fault?
Many of us think we lack financial prudence, when sometimes, the truth is that the economy is simply dealing with us. You buy a small bowl of ice cream, and the moment you look at your account bala...
Be Careful What You Tell Your Cats
A few days ago, I wrote about how the squirrels in our garden were doing the absolute most, destroying and eating their way through a good portion of the food growing there. I jokingly told my cats...
Where the Real Money Grows
My brother-in-law owns a pretty big farm. He uses about five plots of land solely for agricultural purposes, and he seems to know every little trick there is to growing plants. One time, he sent us...
Behind the Perfect Marriage
I don’t think I will ever fully understand the concept of abuse in a marriage, or why some women come online and pretend everything is perfectly fine when, behind the scenes, it really isn’t. Espec...
A Quiet House
“I got the house,” I giggle into the phone, and she says, “Yay,” in a strangely dull tone. “What? You’re not excited for me?” “Maddy, I am. It’s a big thing for you, but there’s something about tha...
The Roses (2025) || What Happens When Love, Meets Ego?
Comedy being the genre of this film made me watch it as I was expecting a funny, messy marriage story, but I ended up thinking about something much bigger, how easily a woman’s ambition can become ...
When “We’re Family” Meets Business
I didn’t really have anything in mind to write about for today’s prompt, so I decided to dig through my own experiences and see what I could pull out of it. Then I remembered an editing job my elde...
When Your Gut Says Run, RUN
I am not one to overlook how I feel around people or when I walk into a place. So, today, being in a whole new month, feeling grateful for so many things, my thoughts somehow took me back to the ti...
Intelligence Is Attractive
Listening to intelligent people speak, or having an intelligent argument or conversation with someone, will always be one of my favourite things. There’s just something wholesome about listening to...
The River-bend
On a September morning, when the day is still young, the air arrives crisp and salty, and the rain, for once, has taken a little break. The sands are dry beneath my feet. The fields are green and l...
Just Live
It’s the first of September today, and I don’t really have much to say other than to remind whoever comes across this post that life certainly throws some hits. People go down, some get up, and som...
A Lost Art
I was going through my pile of old schoolbooks recently and found one of those books that was originally written as a series of letters but put together as a full book for educational purposes. I t...
Hamnet (2025) || Art Inspired by Grief
I have always found films about grief a little difficult to watch because it is painful watching people lose someone they love while having to figure out how to continue living as if the world hasn...
My Subconscious Has Gone Completely Off the Rails
I like sleeping without having dreams whatsoever. And if there must be an exception, I prefer the lucid ones where I know I’m dreaming. Those are the dreams I actually enjoy because I can take cont...