Dang, I really do have a ton of stuff to do but I got an email message which neatly dovetailed into a lot of things I’ve been thinking about lately and so I said (to myself) okay let’s go ahead and write about it. Last week, as you all know, I was being followed around by a camera crew. At one point on Thursday, the … Continue reading Parallel Play
Back where I come from, the younger white folks say karma is a bitch while the older black folks say, you lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. Any way you want to put it, over the weekend one of Romania’s most “beloved” celebrities, Şerban Huidu, drove his expensive SUV into oncoming traffic and killed 2 people (Rom) on a highway in Brasov … Continue reading The Agony and the Ecstasy of Şerban Huidu
Whew, folks I’ve been incredibly busy as of late, delving into a lot of arcane technical things such as keyframes, clock wipes and the difference between 29.97 and 30 frames per second. Suffice it to say that digital video editing is quite a challenge :) But in between the filming, the editing, the traveling, giving interviews, taking photographs and other “ordinary” things I’ve been up … Continue reading Look Homeward Angel
If you live in Romania and went to the Google homepage today, you saw the image to the left because today marks 130 years since George Enescu was born. He is easily Romania’s most famous music composer and is currently featured on every single 5 lei note. As I mentioned briefly in this post, last week I had the good fortune to be in Sinaia. … Continue reading George Enescu
Last week I had the great fortune to meet an American couple who found me through my book and were fans of my writing (you can read about some of our adventures here). As gratifying as their enthusiastic praise was, by far the most interesting thing about them was that they were Christian missionaries. If you’ve been reading my blog for a long time, you … Continue reading The Compleat Angler
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