Tag Archives: Sofia

Summer Junk

Posted on August 19, 2015 by jillbpearlman

There are elements of summer travel that consume the intellect – history and literary settings and reevaluation of the real from the media images we’ve been fed.   There are things that consume the body – sun, mosquitoes.   And … Continue reading →

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How Bulgaria Saved its Jews

Posted on July 30, 2015 by jillbpearlman

I might have expected a country as old as Bulgaria, a culture that has seen it all, to accept the inevitable compromises of war.   After all, as cynics say, only the naive fight for “how it should be.”  Yet … Continue reading →

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Sofia, Give Me Wisdom

Posted on July 27, 2015 by jillbpearlman

Traveling reminds me of how little I know.   I went to a country admiring the soft, beautiful name of its capital city –  Sofia, Greek goddess of wisdom.  But what else?  I had to add wisdom in bits, little … Continue reading →

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