Short treatises about different subject-matters.
During the apex of the global pandemic in 2020 a remote family member passed away quietly in a nursing home where she had been living in her last years. She was well over ninety, and due to the circumstances at that time only a very small group of people … read more
My mother’s parents are from small towns near Wrocław, a city in Lower Silesia that belongs to Poland since 1945.
My grandparents met in the mid-1930s as my grandfather was working as a butcher in and around Breslau1 (which was the German name of Wrocław) and my grandmother was occupied … read more
What an attentive reader of contemporary books, printed periodicals and online media is bound to notice in the span of years or even a few months is an as it were familiar set of recurring themes, accompanying an (usually, but not necessarily) unprecedented and dreadful kind of event or a political circumstance.
One of those recurring themes is the expectation of a soon to come collapse of the economic … read more
