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• The Budapest Palace of the Ethnographic Museum

  By Julie Callahan on October 23, 2013 • ( 1 )

  Kossuth Lajos Ter is the center of Budapest and a standing memorial to its turbulent history.  Buildings on the square are riddled with bullet holes from the 1956 uprising (or as Hungarians are wont to say, “Revolution”).  This part of… Read More ›

• Practical Realities

  By Julie Callahan on October 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Inertia is an incredible force – the urge to sink into a recliner and stay there for 20 or 30 years.  During our last trip home, my doctors said “Wow, your cholesterol is really high.  Even your triglycerides are high.” … Read More ›

• Canned Freedom

  By Julie Callahan on October 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The communists deployed a variety of mechanisms to ensure no one strayed.  Barb wire, bunkers and armed guards lined the borders creating a physical manifestation of the “Iron Curtain”.  However, they didn’t rely on physical barriers alone.  They also leveraged… Read More ›

• Back home, yet all alone

  By Julie Callahan on October 4, 2013 • ( 4 )

  Living in a large and foreign city heightens my “aloneness”.  I am surrounded by couples walking two by two, their heads tilted together as they talk and laugh in their own private world.  I sit nearby unacknowledged, an observer but… Read More ›

• Interesting People…

  By Julie Callahan on September 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  During our time abroad, we have run into a fair number of interesting people, fascinating people.  We are more inclined to start a conversation with strangers.  After all, the chance of a deep conversation is a rarity in our language constrained lives. … Read More ›