Folks, an apology is due. I had a wonderful talk with someone today and with their help I realized lately I’ve been dwelling far too much on the negative side of things. It’s clear just from reading my last few posts that this is so and yet I didn’t truly realize it until now. Although I took last night’s appearance as a disaster, I spoke … Continue reading Apologies
Well I’m a big enough man to admit it. Tonight I got punk’d. Tonight I got played by a real professional and “taken to school”. There’s no video at the moment (I’m sure it will be online soon enough) but tonight I got invited onto a local television talk show. Actually let me rewind and start at the beginning. Last year a group of local … Continue reading Punk’d
Recently I had a conversation with someone and it reminded me of something from my past that I thought I’d share with you, concerning a topic I rarely discuss (music) and one that I often write about (language). Long before I was “Sam cel Roman”, long before I even came to Romania, long before I worked for various governments, long before I was even a … Continue reading I See What You’re Saying
Before I forget, I did want to amend one thing to my 2011 wrap-up post which I shamefully neglected to include. I met a metric ton of people in 2011 due to the book, the blog and as recursive iterations of the same (i.e. I met the ProTV people because I was in Gandul). I met “foreigners” and Romanians alike from all parts of the … Continue reading All of You!
I suppose it had to happen. It does happen. We know it and yet we do not know it, keeping it hidden in our hearts even as the ashen and barren sky outside shows us clearly and unabashedly that it is so. As I expected, the reactions to my piece yesterday were two-fold. Some people read it and felt uplifted by it. Many others however … Continue reading The Tolling of The Bell
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