On a recent evening, after the kids had gone to bed, I hunkered down for a long painful conversation with Karel, my wife of seven years, about the quality of time she was spending with our nearly three-year-old son, Noah. .... I was able to use a week of vacation, and thanks to teaching part-time for two semesters, I had saved up enough money to get bills paid while I was off. Insurance was really the biggest problem for us. I had to really negotiate to keep my job and ...
Note from Anastasia: Karell will be posting once a week during my "hiatus" beginning April 1. When I was in college, spring break usually meant two things: 1) getting to sleep in and 2) catching up on the only soap opera I've ever ...
?We do well in a recession,? the tall and somewhat looming manager of the Nove Lazne spa hotel, Karel Kalivoda, told me. ?People take better care of themselves in hard times.? Kalivoda runs a queer domain of marble colonnades, ...
