With uncharacteristic luck, we chose what was indisputably the most gorgeous day of the entire winter for our babysitting dry run. Shortly after the boys finished their breakfast on Saturday Rada and Bojan arrived to take charge, leaving us free to zip off for a day of skiing. Not an alpine start, but early enough [...]

Still works

So much to be thankful for this year:

You eat every bit of an apple but the stem, and leave it around to remind me of you

Your text messages beginning, “Mars Attacks!”

You’re smarter than I am

Your scorching body

Your scorching soup

You pretend not to know how much better you could have done

Your specific instructions regarding the [...]

As for me, and by me I mean Magda, not JDS for a change, NaBloPoMo opens a totally new perspective. Since November this year has coincided with some unprecedented as well as quite regular sicknesses in our modest household, living up to the challenge might be a problem. Hence my involvement, which I need to [...]

On Sunday we wandered over to Solkan, the village whose edge merges with Nova Gorica’s at our doorstep.

I’m told the residents of 1,006-year-old Solkan loathe this modernist fountain, as it’s on the site of an old, tasteful marble one destroyed in the First World War. Since we weren’t alive to enjoy that classic, we feel [...]

“Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.”
–Simon Newcomb

Saturday was cloudy, and we were disappointed that we’d miss the lunar eclipse. Also that Adam would miss seeing the full moon rise, something [...]