…would be just as cuddly, wouldn’t he? This is not going to be a post about my Misiu, but rather about the word misiu and other terms of endearment. If you are Polish, you already know that my husband’s…
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September 2009
I was one of those kids blissfully unaware that someone could be considered fat or thin or that being either fat or thin had any meaning in life other than having to buy bigger or smaller clothes. Until the…
Have you heard the old joke? What is long and hard and you get it from your Polish husband on your wedding night? His surname! Ha, ha, ha. You cannot imagine how many times I have heard this stupid…
Once again, I was asked the question I have been asked so many times before. It’s not why I came to Poland although that question is high up there on the frequency ranking. Instead today it was why Americans…
Sometimes I feel like I fell asleep at 28 and woke up at 35. Some of the last things I remember about my old life: my parents came to visit us, we went on vacation to Turkey (my last…
It seems like a lifetime ago, my very first day in Poland. It was an important day for me, the start of a lifetime journey. I didn’t realize at the time that I would find myself still in Poland…
As mother of 2 small children, I have learned some things about myself and about parenting in these past couple of years. Surprising, since I feel that I am actually losing brain capacity due to sleep deprivation. (Rosie could…
I like to read the newspaper everyday, actually several if I can find the time, in Polish and in English. Spending a lot of time with two little kids, I need to keep in touch with the outside world…
I need to win the lottery and I’ve even bought a ticket. Maybe we’ll win. Somebody’s got to. If my posts take a sharp turn in the direction of exotic vacation destinations or how to wallpaper a room in…
How do I know? A few reasons… We had to wear jackets in our yard for the first time since Spring. Luckily, we were prepared. We could only hunt out a handful of wild strawberries in our strawberry patch…
