by Olga Brajnović | Jun 27, 2020 | challenges, Health, our life
I’m not on my best days. I seriously had considered titling this post, “Abolish me.” I feel useless. My projects have sunk during this pandemic. I wanted to write a book and had made a sort of outline. But when I tried to begin with my research to...
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 9, 2020 | challenges, Health, Memories, our life
My family always had financial problems. We were immigrants. My father was a journalist and a teacher, so no significant income to feed a family of five children. I was good at music in school and began my studies on piano. I have to say that I was pretty good at it....
by Olga Brajnović | May 14, 2014 | daily prompt, Health
What’s the one guilty pleasure you have that’s so good, you no longer feel guilty about it? I don’t feel guilty now. Why should I? Besides I have a problem. Long years suffering from depression eliminates from your life the sense of pleasure in normal things you...
by Olga Brajnović | Mar 28, 2014 | daily prompt, Health
We all feel down from time to time. How do you combat the blues? What’s one tip you can share with others that always helps to lift your spirits? When I feel down there is nothing that can possibly lift me up. I’ve tried everything: music, relaxation, exercise,...
by Olga Brajnović | Mar 23, 2014 | daily prompt, Health, our life
What are your thoughts on aging? How will you stay young at heart as you get older? When my Mom was 85, she surprised me one day asking me to buy for her some CD she had seen advertised to learn English. She already spoke Croatian, Spanish, German, Italian, and some...
by Olga Brajnović | Mar 8, 2014 | bad luck, daily prompt, Health
It happens: sometimes that filter in our head bursts and we say too much of what we’re thinking and someone gets hurt. Tell us about a time you or someone you know said something that they immediately regretted. Years ago we had in our newsroom a computer system with...
