Tram
On the Number 17 tram going north out of the center of Prague, an old man slouches on the single seat next to the doors. This is the seat reserved […]

It was already late when we first arrived, and Pedro and I had been traveling through central Europe for nearly eleven hours. So it is quite possible […]

It’s November 24th, and Prague looks just like you would imagine. The sky is light grey, almost purple. A slight drizzle floats down from the sky, soft as a child’s foot steps. There is a faint coat of fog that whispers from the cobblestones. A castle rests high above the city, almost as an afterthought. […]

Vera’s kitchen became my sanctuary in a city that was at one and the same time home and completely alien and foreign to me. Waking in the morning I […]

Bezdekov. It was a name I had heard all of my life. We didn’t know how to spell it, but after my Grandfather died, my Grams said it often enough that […]

Czechoslovakia - a land of mystery. A place that for many years existed only on a map and in the creative memory of my Grandfather - who had a child’s view […]

The Old Town Hall Clock - Orloj.
Created when the Earth was the center of the universe and the Sun and the Moon […]

Walking down the street in Prague it was hard to decide what to look at first, the playful pastel colors of the buildings, the people walking along down […]

“And where would you like this package delivered, sir?”, asked the merchant.
“Please send it around to The House of The Two Suns at 1pm please. Dekuji“, […]

The Santa Casa, at least the original one, was the house where it is believed that the Archangel Gabriel told Mary about the future birth […]

The Black Madonna is one of life’s mysteries, one that not many people even know about. It is one that has several theories surrounding her existance.
Some […]

Entering the gothic Bone Church of Sedlec, it’s a strange sort of beauty that awaits at the bottom of the stairs. Bones are everywhere. Human bones. […]

Turning the ancient skeleton key in the lock, I entered the chapel, and turned back to lock the door behind me. Alone. I was in this one room chapel […]