Expat Confessional – 3 Ways I Suck At Driving In Serbia
Driving in and around Belgrade is not easy. [Understatement.] Things simply doesn’t make sense (literally, as in I’m illerate in Cyrillic). It’s New York City-type-driving on steroids. Lanes are more...
View ArticleInat – A Secret Weapon Of Resilience?
Asking around about inat, I’ve received interesting some feedback. … Let sleeping dogs lie, just write more cute anxious-mommy stories. It all started when I wondered about the 1999 Nato bombing. The...
View ArticleExpat Confessional – I’m Barely Literate
Yoo-hoo! Over here! That’s me! The barely literate American … Last week in Expat Confessional–3 Ways I Suck at Driving in Serbia, I wrote about nearly hitting various pedestrians what a great driver I...
View ArticleWhen Mom And Kid Learn Cyrillic, Guess Who Succeeds Faster?
As I alluded to last week in Expat Confessional – I am barely literate… I am learning Cyrillic, or at least trying to, for the sake of my daughter. When Danica was 2 1/2, I was determined to make sure...
View ArticleThe Cyrillic Alphabet As Political Act
So Laura, seriously. Why didn’t you start learning Cyrillic sooner? Zing! I should have bitten the bullet and taken a Serbian language class at a university as soon as we arrived in mid-2010. I should...
View ArticleHow I Acquired A Serbian Godfather
It’s not a new movie; or a revelation of a heretofore secret mafia organization in Belgrade. No. This is a post about Serbian family and married life. The direct translation for godfather in Serbian is...
View ArticleBaby Wearing In The Balkans
I wore both my kids. Of course I believe all of that hoopla about closeness, bonding and safe security, but I did have an ulterior motive: baby wearing was the easiest way to keep my hands free when my...
View ArticleAir-Conditioning–Modern Convenience Or Instrument Of Death?
It’s a valid question, in more ways than one. When I read Time commentator Eric Kleinenberg’s Air-Conditioning Will Be the End of Us, I had to laugh. The point of the article was to highlight just how...
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