Khassogi? Who’s that? Oh! He’s just some guy who walked into a building one day and never came back out. Don’t you remember? It was in the news. I knew that sooner or later this news story would die out. Perhaps this shouldn’t upset me. After all, I don’t really […]
Month: April 2020
Every year I have enjoyed seeing lilacs bloom in May and love to see them blooming all around Riga, Latvia but I never thought to think if there were health benefits. So I went and did some research and discovered that not only do lilacs provide beauty and fragrance they […]
“The Appointment” is a novel written by Herta Müller, Nobel laureate, about life under the oppressive regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania. Are you stuck at home? Add this book to your quarantine reading list. BACKGROUND: In the year 1953, Herta Müller was born in Romania. In the year 1955, […]
The world over is experiencing a lockdown from the dangerous virus COVID 19, but before this virus, other viruses had raised their ugly heads too. Most times the remedy has always been people staying safe by staying indoors or keeping away from an infected person. Well, times like these can […]
The stars were certainly aligned just right on July 21, 1899, because this was the day when one of the world’s greatest authors Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He introduced us to many different characters and subjects in his novels such as “The Old Man and […]
