Hi!

I’m Maíra, and this is where I yell into the void of the world wide web.

I’m from Brazil, married to a Swede/Estonian, living in Spain. I left everything behind and moved across the globe for love. We left everything together and moved across Europe for better weather. I left my well-paid and comfortable programming job to daytrade full-time, and never looked back (crazy as it sounds). I am interested in slow/intentional living, baking bread, gardening, sewing, and taking a little bit of sunshine every day. I have two dogs: Astro, a 12yo male golden retriever, and Luna, a 7yo female Spanish Galgo. I am more summer than winter, more mountain than beach, more day than night, equal parts beer and wine.

A photo of me drinking beer, stylized with a watercolor filter.

A few more random facts

  1. 🎡 I’m a futures trader. Before that, I was a frontend developer. Before that, a professional wedding photographer and videographer. And before that, a video editor in the TV and film industry. I think I finally found my thing, I like trading enough that I can see myself doing it until I get old.
  2. 🍿 I watch a lot of movies but I’m not a Godard-or-nothing kind of girl. I’m interested in all genres, from silly comedies and super hero movies to French Nouvelle Vague. I can rewatch the same thing many times. Sometimes I get hyper focused on the film editing and the photography.
  3. 🌎 I’ve lived in five countries: Brazil, Chile, France, Sweden and Spain.
  4. 💬 I speak fluently five languages: Brazilian Portuguese, English, Spanish, Swedish, French. I’m entirely self-taught in English. I also learned Esperanto years ago and I truly love it, unfortunately the creepy old dudes wanting to see my photos instead of practicing the language on the web have put me off forever.
  5. 😍 I am a proud atheist and freethinker!
  6. 🎹 I’m self-learning the piano since Jan. 2021 with the help of an online piano course. Progress has slowed down immensely, after four years I’m still only around Grade 2. But in Oct. 2025 I decided to renew my commitment and dedicate about an hour a day to the instrument.

Slash

GNR was my favorite band and I loved Slash more than anyone on the planet. I dreamed of marrying him. Anyway. Here are the Slash pages on my site.

Photo of guitarist Slash