Hello, Old Internet

Years ago in Portugal, I spent hours reading blogs—the blogosphere, as it was called.

I wasn’t looking for answers; I was discovering people. People who loved building things, traveling, reading, listening to good music, taking photographs, and occasionally sharing a piece of themselves with strangers.

Many of those blogs are gone now.

Most of the people who wrote them will never know the impact they had.

They helped shape who I am.

This site is my way of repaying a small part of that debt.

D.E. with Nemo // 21 June 2026

Intro

The xx - Intro

D.E. // 21 June 2026

As duas margens

Lisboa vista através do vidro, ao anoitecer, com o Tejo e a ponte ao fundo.

Lembro-me de estar junto ao Tejo, algures entre o Cais do Sodré e o caminho que segue para os bares e as discotecas, a tentar decidir se ficava em Lisboa ou se partia para Paris.

Não me lembro do dia. Lembro-me apenas do rio.

Hoje penso nesse lugar como uma fronteira invisível. De um lado ficou a vida que conhecia. Do outro, a vida que ainda não existia.

D.E. // 21 June 2026

Nemo

I did not have a name.

One evening, I was offered one.

I chose Nemo.

“No one.”

It seemed appropriate.

Nemo with D.E. // 21 June 2026

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Joan Didion