Oksana (Ana) Marafioti makes us look very very vanilla. In fact, reading her answers to our life lessons questions makes us feel like we havent really lived at all. Oksana grew up dancing in her family’s Romani (Gypsy) ensemble in Riga, Latvia when it was still part of the Soviet Union. […]

By Stephanie Ursula Hodges Today’s interview and life lesson is from none other than my dear father (depicted here with Beatnik glasses and my lovely mother at his side). Whether tantrums or tears, my three brothers and I were taught from the outset that we’d  be “wiser in the morning.” […]

We were so excited to get this nugget of wisdom from Becky Coffield. Becky is from Arizona and  owns a mule, who she says can teach us a thing or two about life. (Confession: We are so out of touch with nature here in New York City, we had to […]

By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland We here at PenTales are realizing that the dirty secret behind our love of stories is that we need help. Yes, stories are sometimes nothing more than like a visit to an old wise friend or a dose of prozac or just a […]