Nov 28, 2019 | Death, Over Coffee, Regret, War
“I used to work as a translator/interpreter. I worked for the American Embassy for some time and the Australian Trade Commission, too. In the 90s all embassies shut down here in Belgrade. I remember the day before the bombing began and my acquaintances at the...
Nov 5, 2019 | Death, Over Coffee
“I’m crippled by the fact that we are all going to die. That really hit me hard when my grandfather died a few years ago. It was possibly the lowest point of my life. I really loved him. It got me thinking a lot about death and how our lives are actually really...
Oct 10, 2019 | Death, Love, Over Coffee, Suffering
“We were different in my generation. We used to have long relationships, of course, but we also had quite a lot of short relationships too. Some involved sex, some didn’t. We had many more relationships than you guys seem to have nowadays. And I think that...
Sep 17, 2019 | Death, Grief, Love, Over Coffee
“I spent four years in the war. It was terrible. I was eighteen years old at the time and I became a flight engineer on the Lancaster bombers. I got married during the war and we were two opposites. She was entirely different to me in her way of life, and I was...