Regardless of where one stands on the $10.5 million settlement in Omar Khadr’s case… no, especially when one believes the settlement was not fair. Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law! More: Yes. What would you do? […]

“Too early to tell.” My reaction to a Facebook post of a two year old holding a book, captioned ‘This one is going to be a beauty and brains.’

Shortly after midnight A: You’re getting an entire bottle of vodka?? I: … Sometime after 03:00 A: Should we get another? I: (Read my mind.)

Started the day off with a steam burn – kettle shed its lid at a very inopportune moment. Spent the day with a hand on the ice pack, and the other on… the keyboard. But, the Bytech website is almost […]

Our neighbour below had some leaks from the ceiling, and having called the administration to check among others our bathroom, the guy concluded there isn’t much that looks wrong here. When the woman from below asked what she should do […]

Growing up in Poland towards the end of east-European communism, the Second World War was (and arguably still is) a common subject. My family left the country before it would have been my duty to enlist in the army, but […]

Off on a hike to Sobutka. The last time I tried tackling the hill from the back side, I got rained out. Paths turned to rivers, ankle deep water rushing down the hill with mud, me working hard not to […]

Marek Hlasko, a polish ‘ex-writer’, ends one of his books with a short chapter titled ‘neither an intro, nor an afterword.’ In it, he criticises intros and afterwords, or, more precisely, the type of ideas these tend to deliver. ‘Intros usually […]