About Me

Hi, I’m Sonia Rebecca Menezes 👋
I’m a writer. It’s taken me years to say that without flinching.

For work, I write for tech, AI, and healthcare clients. I enjoy the challenge of making complex things seem clear and interesting. It pays the bills, keeps me learning, and most days, I’m lucky to say I like it.

This blog is different, though. It’s mine.

It’s where I put the half-formed thoughts and the conversations I have in my head. Writing them down is how I process stuff, stay present, and how I try to make sense of the world.

I live in Goa now, a few minutes from the beach. But for most of my adult life, I was in Mumbai—fifteen years of city living at a pace I both loved and outgrew. Now, my husband, daughter, and I are slowly building something that feels like a life. Our days are made up of work, parenting, being with friends, and figuring out what slowness actually looks like.

What most people don’t know is that I grew up moving around a lot. New cities every few years, new schools, sometimes no school at all. I was homeschooled for a bit, lived in different countries, packed and unpacked my life so many times it became second nature.

You’d think that would make it easy to adapt, but if anything, it made me crave the opposite. Not change, but rootedness. I’ve spent most of my life looking for a sense of belonging. I still am.

That’s sort of the undercurrent in a lot of what I write: the search for home. Not just in a physical sense obviously, but in people, in ideas, in community. I want to feel known. And writing this blog has made that feel possible, in small and unexpected ways.

I’m drawn to people who are real with themselves. People who mess up and try again. People who are learning how to be soft in a world that rewards the opposite. I’m trying to be that kind of person too—even when it’s hard and awkward and uncertain.

So that’s why I write. Not to prove a point or wrap things up neatly. But to notice what matters. To sit with the things that don’t have tidy conclusions. And to feel a little more at home in the world, and with myself.