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Travel is just like life, bittersweet and likely to get that way no matter how intent you are on making it go this way.

And other philosophical reflections on motherhood.

A tribute to our mothers, who are the beginning of our own personal stories.

In what we should claim as the tailend of a two-year pandemic, the lingering spirits of the medieval past are given free rein over this World Heritage Site in South Bohemia.

Mind AI founder Paul Lee comes to town with next-level AI in tow.

The time to go to Prague is now. Get your travel plans in order while much of the world is still shilly-shallying about whether or not it is now safe to travel.

Skin everywhere, as phrased by Alexandria-born American writer André Aciman in his hugely popular Call Me By Your Name, a little too Millennial-ish, said a reader, meaning too youngish, to which I replied, “But the narrator is only 17 years old.”

Are you (for) real, Socrates?

Wanderings in Prague inspired by Franz Kafka.

There is beauty in the stars that burns. For some it is the last breath. It travels in space for millions of lightyears, but where it comes from all is dead, broken, scattered in the vastness.

In a way every festival is a return to our long-ago roots, a recollection of our ancient selves, who believed in magic, in ritual, in ceremony, in the invisible, inexplicable forces that governed life on mysterious earth.