my personal life 
A Year of Days
As I write this, my heating system is chugging along, dispelling the cold and dark outside and I see that snow is once again falling on the streets of this little town I have come to call home. And so I am taking a little break from my normal activities to pause and reflect on… Read More ›
The Good Life
If you were walking down the street today in Cluj-Napoca, or any other city in Romania, you’d have no idea that it is “Black Friday”. Slowly but continuously ramped up over the past 20 years in America, the day after Thanksgiving (which is always on a Thursday) is often another day off of work for… Read More ›
Media Extrabbleganza
Wow! It was a busy week here in Lake Wobegon, er, I mean Cluj-Napoca, known far and wide to its inhabitants as Unicorn City. There was a little old election in those United States of America and because everyone and their brother knows I’m an American who speaks Romanian, I spent a good deal of… Read More ›


