Helena Bala

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Helena Bala is a recovering lawyer and lobbyist. She lives in New York with her partner Alex and her dog, Stanley Zbornak. Her email is storiesbyhelena@gmail.com.

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12/19/18

“I’m not sure I could live with myself if her career were to become collateral to my mistakes”

Quartz at Work •

PublishedDecember 19, 2018

12/14/18

“The opportunity cost of raising my own children was losing my career”

Quartz at Work •

PublishedDecember 14, 2018

11/13/16

“Every slight honk would bring me back to that day when our vehicle was blown feet into the air”

Quartz •

PublishedNovember 13, 2016

10/30/16

“When it comes to picking our partners, there are no coincidences”

Quartz •

PublishedOctober 30, 2016

10/2/16

“I was nearly date raped”

Quartz •

PublishedOctober 2, 2016

9/18/16

“I started throwing up so often, and so violently, that the scar on my hand had no time to heal”

Quartz •

PublishedSeptember 18, 2016

9/4/16

“I was sixteen when he raped me.”

Quartz •

PublishedSeptember 4, 2016

8/22/16

“I think my wife knows I’m gay. I’ve told her a million times.”

Quartz •

PublishedAugust 22, 2016

8/7/16

“I check her emails and messages almost every day”

Quartz •

PublishedAugust 7, 2016

7/24/16

“I argue with God about my wife, and why he took her beautiful mind away from her.”

Quartz •

PublishedJuly 24, 2016

7/10/16

“I feel like I never had a childhood; I had so many people depending on me.”

Quartz •

PublishedJuly 10, 2016

6/26/16

“I couldn’t risk being thrown out on the street. I needed to take care of my family.”

Quartz •

PublishedJune 26, 2016

6/12/16

“I have to remind myself every single day that I don’t want to throw away a decade of sobriety”

Quartz •

PublishedJune 12, 2016

5/29/16

“Of course I knew my skin was a different color. But I didn’t think that that made us better or worse.”

Quartz •

PublishedMay 29, 2016

5/15/16

“One look at me, and people think I’m privileged”

Quartz •

PublishedMay 15, 2016

5/1/16

“Exactly 38 minutes of my day are mine”

Quartz •

PublishedMay 1, 2016

12/20/15

Scrooge was right: the case for holiday humbuggery

Quartz •

PublishedDecember 20, 2015

11/22/15

I spent a year listening to strangers tell stories they can’t share with anyone else

Quartz •

PublishedNovember 22, 2015

Helena Bala's posts

“I’m not sure I could live with myself if her career were to become collateral to my mistakes”

“The opportunity cost of raising my own children was losing my career”

“Every slight honk would bring me back to that day when our vehicle was blown feet into the air”

“When it comes to picking our partners, there are no coincidences”

“I was nearly date raped”

“I started throwing up so often, and so violently, that the scar on my hand had no time to heal”

“I was sixteen when he raped me.”

“I think my wife knows I’m gay. I’ve told her a million times.”

“I check her emails and messages almost every day”

“I argue with God about my wife, and why he took her beautiful mind away from her.”

“I feel like I never had a childhood; I had so many people depending on me.”

“I couldn’t risk being thrown out on the street. I needed to take care of my family.”

“I have to remind myself every single day that I don’t want to throw away a decade of sobriety”

“Of course I knew my skin was a different color. But I didn’t think that that made us better or worse.”

“One look at me, and people think I’m privileged”

“Exactly 38 minutes of my day are mine”

Scrooge was right: the case for holiday humbuggery

I spent a year listening to strangers tell stories they can’t share with anyone else