Anniversaries and Memories

A few days ago we celebrated our 34th Wedding Anniversary, and come October will be 39 years together. How do you describe nearly 40 years together? Magical, joyful, fun, occasionally annoying… all are useful labels to encapsulate a life together. Our Anniversary We hosted a dinner party at our favorite restaurant Jasmin a Maslina to […]

Empathy and Compassion

Apologies for the long intermission between updates. How is your summer going? Ours is going well, but the heat is still oppressive and shows no signs of abating soon. Since Corfu, we have attended EXIT Festival 2024 and stayed with friends at their camp on Hvar, Croatia. Humanity Why is the blog titled Empathy and […]

Birthdays, Budapest and Corfu

Happy Birthday to me, I’m 60! With age comes new experiences…. So I am in the bathroom taking care of some personal grooming, no big deal. You know how it is, hair sprouting from places it shouldn’t and absent from where it should. Grabbing my trusty weed whacker (AKA nose hair trimmer), I begin deforesting […]

Updates and Travel News

Morning everyone, how has your winter been? Novi Sad winter is a bust! Barely a dusting of snow and the local ski resorts are desperately trying to make snow. Strange that Virginia had a a real winter and the Balkans are in the teens (Celsius). Many of you asked “what happened to the blog?” Simple […]

Budapest

We recovered from EXIT, returned from Budapest only to be assaulted by two freak storms that wrecked havoc on Novi Sad. Natives say they haven’t seen storms like these for 37 years. We barely escaped the storm’s fury during a sunset cruise on the Danube and had to take cover in a riverside bar; oh […]