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I have been asked this quite a lot: “which language do you think in, Polish or English?” Possibly I have had this query levied at times when...

Next week, between Monday and Wednesday, I have what amounts to a nine-hour series of lectures to give on a topic that is not within my t...

Normally if I ask someone in an email “how’s it going” they respond that they are exceedingly busy and overworked and behind on their projec...

Tonight’s dinner was pizza. With all the trepidations surrounding the painting job (see post below), I didn’t have the mind nor the muscle t...

I have been repainting some of the rooms in the house this year. My study got the greenish-yellow treatment this winter and today I attacked...

George W. Bush came to Cheney’s defense today. Amidst speculations that, but for the threat of the lost conservative vote, GWB would be bett...

Though I am not a fan of nationalism of any sort, as far as holidays go, I do as the Romans do. I live here and if Americans grill things an...

I don't think of myself as ever having gloomy thoughts and worries about where it is that I'm heading with my life. In my mind, I le...

Look at me with incredulity if you wish, but I have to admit, I am a big fan of the books of Alain de Bottom. I foisted his “How Proust can ...

Very early in the day, you could go to the Morren’s Fruit Farm stand today at the Market and buy these: first raspberries of the season  ...

It was, weather-wise, a near-perfect day. It took 50 minutes to walk from my home to Greenway (Madison’s newest shopping place, where I had ...

...I have an invitation to deliver lectures at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; I have a sister and father who would welcome me; and I...

However, I do want to give just ONE more plug to a cake recipe. This is the easiest, the best the most unusual, the most impressive little p...

When time permits, my sister checks in here and reads these oddball posts. Why are they odd? Because her life in Warsaw could not be more di...