by Olga Brajnović | Nov 23, 2023 | Poetry
My sparrow is quite common: Bouncy, happy and elusive. Plays hide and seek among the branches braiding the four corners of my square. Calls me with the singing of a childish laugh, and it disappears leaving me alone, searching for its improbable shadow. I want to be...
by Olga Brajnović | Jul 13, 2022 | Family, Memories, Nature, our life
After decades of absence, I visited the village where I spent the happiest summers of my childhood: Canet de Mar near Barcelona. My nephew, now a grown man, guided me thru the well-known old streets to the beach, where I could feel the mediterranean sea kissing my...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 31, 2019 | challenges, Family, Journalism, our life, photography
I began this year full of expectations. We celebrated my dad’s centenary. He was a professor at the University of Navarre for 33 years, writer, journalist, and poet. But above all, he was a wonderful person who experienced an extraordinary story of risky...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 17, 2014 | daily prompt
Are you a good judge of other people’s happiness? Tell us about a time you were spot on despite external hints to the contrary (or, alternatively, about a time you were dead wrong). My mom was crying and I was looking at her helplessly, heart-broken. I had no idea...
