This journey began in 2016 with the passing of my great aunt, my grandmother's sister, Elena Čiurlytė Barnet (1923 - 2016). When my...

Translation is a road between cultures. Today I had the great honor of meeting Master Jin Mok, Kouksundo Master, and son of Kouksundo...

Birute Galdikas has dedicated fifty years to working in the field in Borneo, observing orangutans in their natural habitat. Today this...

This morning, my mother, Aldona Simutytė Sruoginienė, sent a photo of our close friend, Nijolė Bražėnaitė Lukšienė Paronetto, holding her...

As I was driving to the homestead of the anti-Soviet resistance fighter and writer, Juozas Lukša, to attend his 100-year anniversary...

This letter was shared with me by Liz Jaroslaw from San Francisco. Her father was the founder of Weight Watchers. Apparently, her father...

Kalbėjausi vakar telefonu su Nijolė Bražėnaitė Niujorke. Ji džiaugiasi, kad išleidau jos ir Juozo Lukšos meilės laiškų knygą, „Apie anuos...

Last night I was invited to Solo Theater's premier, "Motinos Pienas" (Mother's Milk), based on the best selling novel by Latvian writer,...

Perhaps the best way to witness the ancient Greek tragedy, "Antigone" is in the driving rain and cold wind as I did on Friday in the...

Perhaps it is because I am a writer, and much of a writer’s work is to revise and to edit, I am continually tempted to revise my life, to...

Today I drove out to the Litauisches Gymnasium in Hüttenfeld, a small village in the Lampertheim region. I visited with Marytė Šmitienė,...

This morning I woke up to a glow of pink coming through the skylight in the dormer over my bed. I went into the kitchen and opened the...

I awoke in my hotel room and it took a minute for me to get my bearings straight. I was in East Germany, the former DDR. This weekend all...

October 1, 2020 Yesterday, just shy of 10:00 pm, I rolled into the parking lot of Hotel Aviv in Dresden, after thirteen hours of driving....