How to Stay Two Steps Ahead: A Photo-Essay-Advantage

Your enemies might envy you for this.

Jan 31 • Tatiana Gallardo

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August 2025

Sobriety Needs a Rebrand

As a verbal strategist, I help brands tell their story. As a non-drinker, I see how the language of sobriety is all wrong.

Aug 25, 2025 • Tatiana Gallardo

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May 2024

How to Relieve Yourself of Creative Constipation

It won't be smooth, but it'll feel ah-mazing.

May 14, 2024 • Tatiana Gallardo

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May 2023

Why I Disappeared: A Photo Essay-Explanation

Alone in the mountains, I...took...a...break.

May 31, 2023 • Tatiana Gallardo

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January 2023

One Year of Facing Fear

Also known as the hardest story I've written all year.

Jan 31, 2023 • Tatiana Gallardo

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Five Books to Change Your Life

An imperfectly illustrated self-gift guide.

Jan 2, 2023 • Tatiana Gallardo

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December 2022

So You Arrive to a Foreign City Alone and Desperate for Friends?

Here's what to expect when you know absolutely no one! As demonstrated in these Berlin photo strips.

Dec 20, 2022 • Tatiana Gallardo

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November 2022

Marine, Ludo, & Me: A Photo Love Story

For one wild weekend in France, I embrace my third wheel truth.

Nov 30, 2022 • Tatiana Gallardo

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How to Feel Alive

According to my abuela that lived to 98.

Nov 2, 2022 • Tatiana Gallardo

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October 2022

Subscribers Doing Scary Things: An Illustrated Thread

An open invite to take a risk (and leap into the comment zone).

Oct 20, 2022 • Tatiana Gallardo

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Dear Mom: A Photo Essay

Abruptly alone in Spain, I started to summon your strength.

Oct 2, 2022 • Tatiana Gallardo

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September 2022

Falling in Friendship Love: An Illustrated Italian Romance

I barely knew her, but I flew across the globe to be with her. Crazy? Stupid? Amore?

Sep 19, 2022 • Tatiana Gallardo

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