by Olga Brajnović | Jul 26, 2021 | challenges, Family, fiction
I just wanted to go home. I promise. After a hell of a day in the office, I was exhausted and needed a good rest.Not so easy to find it in a house with four kids, two of them already difficult adolescents and a wife overwhelmed by her job and the situation at home,...
by Olga Brajnović | Feb 20, 2021 | challenges, fiction
Claire was so upset, she lost it. Somebody had gone to the CEO of his company with absurd accusations against her telling him she was some communist agitator after a meeting in which she had to speak out defending a coworker who was about to be fired because of budget...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 27, 2020 | challenges, Love
The following is a quote of my dad’s diaries when he was separated from my mom because of the IIWW and the posterior persecution of the communists. The separation lasted twelve years. Every moment I accompany you, Ana. In silence, I contemplate what you do and...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 15, 2020 | challenges, Love, Memories
When my father died, we found his diaries from the years of WWII and the cold war, a time very harsh for him. We thought that the diaries would be full of his adventures as a prisoner and fugitive, which were really exciting. And yes, he wrote about that, but in the...
