I love this photograph: the energy of the dance, an old worldliness of patterned skirts and polished boots, and the wide eyed wonder of a small girl. My husband, Pat, took it one day last summer at a dance festival… Read More ›
Insiders Budapest
Information on Budapest based on our two years of living there.
No Country for Dreamers…
We tackled a poem during a recent lunchtime English conversation class; Dreams Deferred by Langston Hughes. Not being terribly poetic myself, I stumbled upon it googling “Poems for ESL students”. Poetry can be tough to interpret in a second language… Read More ›
Seasons of the City
Living in a small mountain town in Colorado, I tended to measure the seasons to the whims of nature: the bugle of rutting elk; snow blanketing the mountains; hummingbirds flitting past my window; a piping hot sun beaming down from… Read More ›
The Budapest Palace of the Ethnographic Museum
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 ›
Canned Freedom
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 ›
The World In Between 