I think my maid is trying to poison me. Every second week after she visits, I find pieces of fennel mixed in with my Muesli.

It finally snows in Prague. It's been abnormally warm all winter, and there has been no snow. It started snowing yesterday, and by this morning there is about 15cm. I get out my new camera to

I'm talking on the phone with my mom, and she brings up the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale. "I liked the opening chase scene," I say, "but thought parts of the movie

After soccer, a friend asks if I want to go for a beer. I go. It turns out it wasn't a bar he wanted to go to, but a wedding reception. I guess my Czech still

I go to bed with my pajamas on backwards, and so wake up lying on the ceiling. It scares me at first, but I quickly get used to it. Standing upside-down on the ceiling, my head is about

Here's an admission: Sometimes two things happen on one day, and on many days nothing happens. So I fiddle the dates of the entries in my blog. God: That's not the only thing you

There are only two empty seats on the tram- the one beside me and the one beside the man in front of me. An old lady gets on. As she goes to sit beside me, she glances at

We are sitting in our post-doc office in Malostranske namesti.  A pigeon alights on the window sill. I tell Zoran that I hope it doesn't come in because pigeons are dirty dirty birds. He disagrees. He