KRISTINA LANG'S LETTERS & POEMS

My daughter and I somehow always spontaneously travel to Zagreb for New Year's Eve. We like to welcome the New Year on the main square of...

The friendships that survived and were maintained despite the time that has passed and despite the distances which life has placed...

Years, months and days pass in a sequence and once we turn around, look behind us and see that a part of life has passed. However, there...

Recently, the photo attached to this article brought me back to my past and my life from 35 years ago. I was young and in love with a...

The wedding time of my generation, people who are now in their late fifties, is long gone and the time of our children's weddings has...

Last weekend, in the company of friends, I welcomed the New Year 2024 for the second time, which, according to the Julian calendar, is...

My daughter and I welcomed this New Year 2024 in the wonderful Zrinjevac park in Zagreb. We arrived in the city centre by tram and got...

Another year is coming to an end and somehow, we spontaneously turn around and sum up what happened and how we felt. In the course of the...

Short, rainy, autumn days pass, and I somehow get lost in daily tasks and notice autumn too little both around me and within me. Autumn...

When I started writing this blog in May 2020, it was an objectively difficult period in which we sank into a dangerous pandemic. At that...

In January 2022, when I was suffering from Covid, which, due to the proper vaccination, only scratched me, the news was about the saga of...

The penultimate day of my annual vacation in Croatia was extremely beautiful and filled with emotions towards dear people whom I rarely...

These days, my daughter, who is studying for a master's degree in neuroscience, has to prepare a poster presentation. She is a little...

In Croatia, everyone knows that May 1st is celebrated as International Workers’ Day. May 1st is also a holiday in England, but no one...

Even though I've lived in England for twenty-one years, which is more than I've lived as an adult anywhere, including Croatia, some small...

I started writing my blog sometime in the early spring of 2020 during the general lockdown in the UK, and the world in general, caused by...

It is the middle of January, the weather is cold and gloomy, and our children, who are no longer children, are returning to their student...

I already wrote once that I was raised in an atheist family and that Christmas was not celebrated when I was growing up. But I don't feel...

This year's World Cup somehow did not impress me very much. My brother tried to get me interested, but until today I was quite...

Last weekend I hosted two friends, Helena and Frank. When, 17 years ago, I applied for a job in the group of a top world scientist, and...