by Olga Brajnović | Feb 4, 2021 | challenges, Family, Memories
My father had an aunt named Olga, a teacher at the school in his town, Kotor. She was respected and loved by everybody because she cared for her pupils very much. The town suffered a lot during WWII. First, the Italian fascists occupied it and took my father as a...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 24, 2020 | challenges, Family, Memories
The seal of the Orient Express. Photo by Dominik Scythe on Unsplash After twelve years apart, persecuted by communists, my parents finally managed to get together in Munich in 1956. My mom boarded the Orient Express in Zagreb, Croatia, then under communist Yugoslavia,...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 28, 2020 | bad luck, Journalism, Memories
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash One of my career achievements was that my colleagues elected me as the Navarra Journalists Association’s first woman president. I was young, and in those years, men still dominated the profession. There were difficult times...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 22, 2020 | Family, Love, Memories
My mom had a stroke and spent four years paralysed. I spent much time with her, trying to alleviate her suffering. It was exhausting and wonderful at the same time because we became very close to each other and complicit in many things. She could move the right side...
by Olga Brajnović | Aug 15, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
Doubts. All my life I have had trouble deciding what to do. And eventualy, after trying many ways to express my creativity, and release my energy, I couldn’t mastered a single hobby. Events in my life also contributed to my constant change of interests. I liked...
