Carolyn Schott
I just got off the phone with the White House. I was telling President Obama (via the citizen comment line)…
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I’m surprised I survived. Thirty years ago, a friend invited me on a hike. The distance (nine miles) concerned me—that…
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Like a flamingo in a flock of baby chicks, you just can’t miss the typical tourist walking down the street—confused…
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Seattle has an unhealthy relationship with rain. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not an import who makes disparaging comments about Seattle’s…
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By birth and upbringing, I am American. My ethnic heritage is German. But music speaks to the soul, and my…
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As I talk to friends about the crisis in Ukraine, I am frustrated by the misunderstandings I hear. I am…
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Warsaw’s Path of Remembrance—a walk through the heart of what was once the city’s vibrant Jewish community. A walk through…
Read MoreTraveling to Poland and learning more about the Solidarity movement and the Warsaw Uprising gave me a whole new…
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Dripping blood, missing rental car, taxi careening through traffic—as I told the rental car agency guy (when we finally found…
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I remember a trip to Ukraine in the spring of 2005, just months after the Orange Revolution shook the streets…
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