by Olga Brajnović | May 29, 2015 | daily prompt
Sure, you turned out pretty good, but is there anything you wish had been different about your childhood? If you have kids, is there anything you wish were different for them? Once, my grandma came to visit us. She got a visa permit for 15 days from the communist...
by Olga Brajnović | Apr 19, 2015 | daily prompt
Write a review of your life — or the life of someone close to you — as if it were a movie or a book. A young woman gets married with an independent journalist in Zagreb in the middle of the WWII. For months before the end of the war she gives birth to a baby girl....
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 14, 2014 | daily prompt
What are the top items on your anti-bucket list — those things you never, ever want to do, places you never want to visit, books you never want to read, When I was a trainee in a newspaper, another trainee said she didn’t want to end her career without being in...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 19, 2013 | daily prompt
Tell us about a time when you flew into a rage. What is it that made you so incredibly angry? Mostar. Bosnia. During the Balkans war. The Spanish defence minister was visiting Spanish soldiers deployed under the UN mandate. He visited a makeshift cemetery in a park in...
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 25, 2013 | daily prompt, our life
Do you belong in this day and age? Do you feel comfortable being a citizen of the 21st-century? If you do, explain why — and if you don’t, when in human history would you rather be? When I was ten I made some calculations and I concluded that I would be too old to...
