When you get past family and friends, the part of American life I miss the most is the ability to make nearly any recipe from any international cuisine with all the required ingredients. At home, I can buy everything to… Read More ›
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One Month Left in Budapest
One month!? After three and a half years in Central Europe, it’s hard to imagine our time here is nearly over. I look back to that first night in Bratislava; an Italian dinner on the Danube, a restless night at… Read More ›
At Last My Dreams Come True – A Hungarian Pig Killing
Warning: Pigs did die in the making of this blog and fairly graphic photographs follow. If this makes you squeamish, I’ll see you back here next week. A young man in my conversational English class, Matej, looked up and smiled…. Read More ›
The Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
At the turn of the 20th century, two French architects, Paul Cret and Jacques Greber, designed the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Then, they turned their attention to create a museum which would house one of the most important collections… Read More ›
The Joy of the Unknown
Yesterday evening, just as the sun dipped below the Buda hills, a group gathered in the park below our apartment. A cluster of candles flickered at the base of a statue surrounded by diffuse pinpricks of light as people continued… Read More ›
The World In Between 