Sarajevo Rose
It was 1993. Our dorm in India had just installed a 10 foot satellite dish to catch the US cable channels and it was welcome change from the 1.5 channels of State run Doordarshan and it’s melancholia. CNN had just become…
Stories
Stories that matter. The people, fables and legends that have shaped our world. And the pervasive humanity that percolates us all.
A walk around Bruges (Brugge)
A quick gallery from our walk near and around the Sint Annakirk neighborhood Bruges (Brugge) on a cloudy, yet pleasant, autumn morning.
An Austro-Hungarian State of Mind
Our experience with Ottoman (Turkish) flags in Bosnia left us a little curious about the leanings of the people of Croatia and other Yugoslav states. Were people happier in modern day states? Did they prefer the erstwhile state of Yugoslavia?…
An Ottoman State of Mind
The tourist season had not begun yet in Mostar, and there were a sprinkling of mostly eastern European tourists getting a head start on their vacation. As we were wandering around the Kriva Cuprija, or the crooked bridge – that…
A diamond is for a Moment
A few years ago, we drove 4 hours to Chico, California, to witness our first (technically, second, but I was too young to remember the first one) solar eclipse. That was an annular – where the Moon does align completely…