A few years ago, a friend of mine discovered an enormous cache of photographs of her family from the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was more interested in the people in the photographs but because I didn’t know most of them, what caught my eye was everything else, the hair styles, the clothing styles, the cars in the background and other details like that. … Continue reading 66 Seconds
Yesterday I was interviewed by a local TV station (NCN in Cluj – I’ll post the video when I have it) about me, my book and my life here. And they asked me the same question I always get asked, which is why choose Romania? I certainly understand that question. Romanians have been raised from birth that “other” countries are nice, wonderful, beautiful and worth … Continue reading Why We Come to Romania
Even though the price of a train ride has just gone up, I think one of the strangest things to me has been just how little Romanians explore and travel within their own country. After all, dialects and accents from Severin to Botosani are mutually intelligible, no passport or documents are necessary, and no location is more than a day’s travel away. But exploring one’s … Continue reading Every Nook and Cranny
After filming all day Sunday outside of town, I made my way back into the city and was waiting on a bus to take me home when suddenly the skies opened up and I got to witness one of the hardest summer downpours I’ve seen in a long, long time. It usually doesn’t rain this hard in Romania but there you go. What you’re seeing … Continue reading A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall
Yes, folks today was an absolutely superb August day – really quiet, nobody working, streets mostly empty, the sun shining and lots of delicious warm temperatures. I’ve decided to add a new category of posts, called Video Zilei. This will be short clips of just “ordinary life” here in Romania for everyone to see. Nothing will be too terribly “exciting” but that’s kind of the … Continue reading Lazy Monday
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