by Olga Brajnović | Oct 14, 2020 | Family, Journalism, Memories
My father was a teacher at the Journalism school of Navarre’s University in Spain from 1960 to 1992. I studied in that school and attended his classes, but I couldn’t take his exams. Instead, a tribunal of three teachers was in charge of testing me, and...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 8, 2020 | challenges, commitment, Family, Journalism, Memories
During WWII, my dad was on a train when a communist guerrilla bombed the tracks. They killed many passengers and took the survivors as prisoners. My dad was an independent journalist who had been a prisoner of the fascists for criticizing Mussolini. Now only because...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 25, 2020 | challenges, Family, Memories
I wrote this post September 25th 2014 to answer a WordPress prompt that asked who was my hero when I was five and if my vision of that person had changed with the time. When I was five he was my hero. The perfect man. The one who knew all the answers. The one with...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 11, 2020 | challenges, Family, Memories, our life
Tich was our canary. He was small and yellow and sang like an angel. We loved him dearly. He lived in a big cage in our living room. When I played the piano he began to sing and I felt great joy But his life ended too soon We cried, seen hopeless how his little heart...
by Olga Brajnović | Aug 25, 2020 | challenges, Family, Memories
A handwritten note on my desk you gave me eight years ago for my birthday makes me feel you are still by my side. But you’re not here nor anywhere in this world. You ended the exciting way of your life silently and peacefully. I had liked to be with you at that...
by Olga Brajnović | Aug 11, 2020 | Family, Memories
My mom was very realistic and practical in everything. She was not a person easily fooled by stories of paranormal events. But she told me three intriguing stories: She had a tough life. Persecuted by the communists in Yugoslavia in the forties and fifties and...
