by Olga Brajnović | Sep 19, 2020 | challenges, Memories, Nature, photography
One of my favourite songs is “Try to remember”. This is how it goes: Try to remember the kind of SeptemberWhen life was slow and oh, so mellow.Try to remember the kind of SeptemberWhen grass was green and grain so yellow.Try to remember the kind of...
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 | Sep 3, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
As a reporter, I had to deal with information about terrorism and, in my case, above all, about the youngsters who were going to be trained to become terrorists. Life could be pretty dangerous if you were a journalist trying to tell the truth. One year I decided to...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 2, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
When I was in the deepest stage of my depression, my doctor said that I needed to put a distance between my workplace and me. So I packed my belongings and took a flight to the US, crossing the Ocean. I began to work as a freelancer for a news agency in San Francisco,...
by Olga Brajnović | Aug 28, 2020 | challenges, Memories, our life
After a trip to Bilbao, I was returning home, and I boarded the city bus with my duffle bag hanging on my back with the strap across my chest. The bus was crowded, and when it reached my stop, I had a little troubled to get out of it. So much that the bus driver...
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...
