Some years ago I began writing short essays and vignettes as a project to keep me entertained and somewhat sane while I was living full time in Macedonia. It was also a bit therapeutic. Living in the Balkans, and observing the effects of US and EU foreign policy in the area, I wrote to keep myself from placing curses on foreign policy elites who really know bugger all. The result is scores of articles some of which will be posted here on this site. Hopefully, they will also serve to entertain, enlighten and enliven. Or something like that.