Our neighbour below had some leaks from the ceiling, and having called the administration to check among others our bathroom, the guy concluded there isn’t much that looks wrong here. When the woman from below asked what she should do […]
Growing up in Poland towards the end of east-European communism, the Second World War was (and arguably still is) a common subject. My family left the country before it would have been my duty to enlist in the army, but […]
Off on a hike to Sobutka. The last time I tried tackling the hill from the back side, I got rained out. Paths turned to rivers, ankle deep water rushing down the hill with mud, me working hard not to […]
Marek Hlasko, a polish ‘ex-writer’, ends one of his books with a short chapter titled ‘neither an intro, nor an afterword.’ In it, he criticises intros and afterwords, or, more precisely, the type of ideas these tend to deliver. ‘Intros usually […]
