Author Archives | Gabriela Lessa

Gabriela Lessa is a Brazilian journalist and writer, with an MA in Narrative Journalism from the University of Missouri. She has worked for several Brazilian newspapers and for American publications such as Mother Jones. In 2009, Gabriela won the Great Plains Award for Best Feature, for the story “The Senior Therapist”, published on Inside Columbia Magazine in December, 2008. She’s currently back at her hometown, Belo Horizonte, writing her first novel, a multicultural women’s fiction.



Top 5: Fictional Characters who Defeated Failure

Failure is a natural part of life. So it’s no wonder it’s there on the silver screen too – you know, the whole art-imitates-life deal. Lost jobs and broken hearts (sometimes even both) are always there on the screen. Fortunately, good trumps evil (or at least it’s supposed to), and the big failure of a [...]

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Your Career Or Your Relationship?

We see it in movies all the time. The main character meets someone and falls in love, but their careers are going in different directions. They can’t handle it, so they break up. At the end, one of them decides love is more important, drops everything and they live happily ever after. In an age when everyone’s encouraged to be career-driven and independent, that might sound like something that only happens in a fairy tale…. It isn’t.

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5 Scenes to Turn Your Stomach

Hollywood might be able to show you you’re not that bad of a cook after all–or, at least make you not want to eat for days. Here are five scenes to turn your stomach.

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Top 10: Myths of Eating Healthy Dispelled

With so many temptations out there, eating healthy can be a challenge. Even when we gather all our willpower and decide to do it, sometimes we just don’t know exactly what’s true and what isn’t, which could lead to a very frustrating diet. If you’ve been trying so hard to eat right and still don’t [...]

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