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Cultural Differences in Street Eye Contact

(The following sentence isn’t true, but it felt like it for a while until we figured things out.) Nobody likes us, here in Prague. Walking down the street, we’re invisible. Have we reached that age where we become invisible? Are our clothes weird? What the hell? It’s not just on… Continue reading

Let’s Make Beautiful

Wannabe city planners and real estate developers of every community on the planet should be forced to spend some time in Prague before they re allowed to embark on their career. After a period of study, paid for by their parents or other crowd-funding group, they must return to a disadvantaged… Continue reading

Prague Wins the City of Art Award

Okay, I ve never been to Rome, Florence, or Paris, so I could be wrong but Prague wins the award for World s Best City of Art. It s everywhere . . . paintings on houses, apartment buildings, and business signs. Sculptures in every direction, from classical to modern to what-the-hell-is-that! If there is a… Continue reading

Charlie Winston at Lucerna Music Bar in Prague

We spent a couple of hours checking out events calendars online and found a few clubs that seemed to be in our vein. We went back and forth from their schedules to YouTube and we watched videos on each band. We decided the next show to see was a UK… Continue reading

So Much for My Jet Lag Theory

Jet lag snuck up and got us after all. On day two we went to the Spanish Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Old Town Prague for a classical concert. There were five strings and a trumpet player from the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, and an opera singer in a… Continue reading

Prague Is Too Inexpensive, Something Must Be Wrong

How do they do it? How do the people and businesses of Prague manage to keep the prices of everything so low? Is it because they live in some fairy-tale land of make-belief and they haven t noticed that it s not possible to make a living when charging so little for… Continue reading

Postmodern Jukebox in Prague!

Based on past experience, there was a strong chance we d lose a day in the fog of jet lag. I had a plan to defeat it. Late one night, my friend Robert Kelsey sent me links to some great bands that I hadn t heard of. Several took me to Postmodern Jukebox videos on YouTube.… Continue reading

A Medical Tourism Trip to Prague

Oh boy, we re going for it now. We re taking a medical tourism trip to Prague for a hip replacement. My wife, Geni Morrow, has been dancing and tumbling, and teaching dance and tumbling, for over 45 years. She owned a dance school called The EDGE (Elite Dance and Gymnastics) for… Continue reading

I Use Scrivener

I ve been using Scrivener for my writing and I m happy with it. I m a long-time hater of Word, so finding Scrivener was a big relief. The main reason I like Scrivener is because of the export, or compile, tools. With a simple dropdown menu I can export to mobi, epub,… Continue reading