Once upon a time Years ago at university in the US, one of my professors asked our class to imagine ourselves at age 50. I suppose he chose 50 as a nice round number, more than double the age…
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Po polsku tu, For English scroll down Prawdziwa historia from my life in Poland Na początku, żeby nie było, jestem Amerykanką i mieszkam w Polsce. Kilka lat temu siedziałam na ławce i czekałam na autobus. Przyjechał Autobus D. Wysiadł…
Find out here how to say grandmother in Polish.…
I am sometimes surprised when I realize that I am a parent, and with that it’s my responsibility to talk to my children about things that are going on in the world. I wonder if my parents had the…
Not satisfied with how things are going in your country? Don't leave the country. Do these 9 things instead.…
Czego nie robiłabyś w Ameryce a robisz w Polsce? As an Amerykanka w Polsce, there’s nothing that I have done in Poland that I wasn’t able to do in the USA except drive like a maniac and give bribes…
Check out Part Two of my doszły interview here. Enjoy! Dlaczego zdecydowałaś się na pisanie bloga? My friend Ewa encouraged me. She became my friend here in Poland and later immigrated to the States. She was and I think…
Here’s an excerpt from an interview I did some time ago that never in fact appeared anywhere. Scroll through to check out my answers. Skąd pochodzisz i jak to się stało, że wylądowałaś w Polsce? Where are you from…
A CASE OF THE UGLIES Mirror, Mirror In an expat group I am in, we were recently discussing the phenomenon of subjective attractiveness. For example, you are a plain old 6 in your home country, but an exotic 9…
Life is brutal There’s nothing fun or funny about funerals. There really isn’t. Ok, maybe there is. Let’s start again. There’s nothing fun or funny about death. There we go. That sounds right. Death, not funny. Funerals, sometimes funny.…
