Mika the Alchemist

Just wanted to share with you the pieces I am planning on wearing for my wedding. They are made from traditional piña (pineapple fabric) What fragrance should I be wearing? 🤔

As we approach Father’s Day, I can’t help but reflect on where I am in my process of grieving. Am I better in my second year without one of my favourite people gone? Truth is, I think I am in a far more challenging place where the sand of transition has in part settled and I am confronted to the empty space that is left behind that my father once filled. It has become more and more obvious and contrasting. I was promised time would make things better but I’m starting to be very doubtful of that concept. I feel grief has become a much lonelier place to be as everything now happens in silence and alone because who want to remiss on old sad stories? I get it! The irony is that I think grief hits harder much later on.

I do sometimes wish I could go back even for a few minutes to feel what it was like. Even during the pandemic, home somehow felt like a safe place. Things feel oddly different now. People often talk about the way they feel in their home after someone broke and entered. I think in a way illness feels similar only the buglar didn’t come for your jewels 💎 in a drawer, they came for a loved one. ❤️🏡

Is Lady Gaga’s blood actually in each bottle of her 2012 release ‘The Fame’ fragrance? Short answer is no and here is why.

I went to the hospital today for a post surgery follow up. It was at the same hospital we spent a number of weeks at when my father was first diagnosed with stage IV cancer. It was a difficult time where we only got bad news and had to anust to a new reality. The building my father was in is now gone and it dawned on me how it mirrored the way I felt and made me realize the irony of my broken arm healing at a hasty pace but how my 💔 felt like it was still somewhere in that ghost of a building that is long gone. Reality moves forward but somehow I keep revisiting in my mind the remains of a demolition.