Last week my daughter, Taylor, messaged me: MOM, I’m not ready for the real world! She loves college life; graduation is a thief sneaking in to steal her dwindling and carefree youth. The real world is a bit like the boogie… Read More ›
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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 ›
Practical Realities
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
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 