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Up on the roof
Dateline: July 5th, 2022 When this old world starts bringing me down, and people are just too much for me to face, I climb way up to the top of the stairs, And all my cares just drift up into space. This morning, I noticed that my phone was no longer able to make phone…
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All we are saying . . .
Dateline: July 4th, 2022 Today started much like the previous day: I woke up early, ate breakfast, practiced Czech online, and then went back to sleep for another six hours. Damn jet lag! When I awoke, it was already evening. I knew I had to do something special on this particular day, so I decided…
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Jet-leg has me feeling like a rag
Dateline: July 3rd, 2022 One thing that we all are prone to suffer from is what psychologists call the “protagonist viewpoint.” That is to say that each of us believes that we are the main character in a book or movie that encompasses each of our daily lives. The trouble with this logic is that…
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Downtown Dalí and Uptown Andy
Dateline, July 2nd, 2022. Midafternoon in Staré Město. I awoke mid-afternoon feeling refreshed, and my phone was fully charged. “Hot dog! I thought to myself. “I’m heading downtown!” And downtown I headed. I took the tram to Republic Square and wandered south for a few blocks. Before I know it, I had stumbled upon one…
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First Full Day in Prague: A stranger in a strange land
Dateline: July 2nd, 2022. I awoke at the sound of my phone’s alarm clock at 5:45 am local time. Unfortunately, the two phone calls that I made yesterday, as well as using the luggage locator app, had almost completely zapped the phone’s battery life. And since I didn’t have Czechoslovakian-compatible charger, I knew I had…
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Na Zdraví!
To your health, comrades. To your health. Dateline: July 1st, 2022 It was five o’clock in the morning when the plan touched down in Dublin. I did not receive so much as a wink of sleep on the plane. How could I? We were flying so close to the north pole that even as one…
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Dobrý Den!
Dateline, July 22nd, 2022. Who are you? Where do you come from? What are you doing here? After three weeks in a new city, in a new country, in a new continent, I am finally starting to find my bearings. I was standing on a metro platform beneath the streets of Prague when a middle-aged…
A Connecticut Yankee in King Wenceslas's Court 