"My Rectangle of Freedom"Third Story of the May Monthly ChapterWritten by Aleksandra PanićVoiceover by Marija Drndić My favorite rectangle of Seattle — the city where I lived for ten years, where I became a mother, a writer, and the woman I am today — stretched between...
“The Surronded Republic“Second Story of the May Monthly ChapterWritten by Aleksandra PanićVoiceover by Marija Drndić During the spring of 1992, we heard daily stories about saving men from going to war. A friend of my grandmother’s from Kanjiža called to recount what was happening in a...
“War and Cancer“First Story of the May Monthly ChapterWritten by Aleksandra PanićVoiceover by Marija Drndić April 2026. At the Institute of Oncology, a long corridor ending in a closed window overlooking the hospital’s inner courtyard can accommodate about twenty women. Today, there are three times as...
SATURDAY/SUNDAY, May 9 and 10 And so, there it is. Our fourth humanitarian trip to Ukraine quickly came to an end. Everything this time was truly exactly as one could only imagine – wonderful, practically summer weather came as a reward to the people who had to...
FRIDAY, MAY 8 Colleagues from the Croatian humanitarian organization Dobro dobrim didn't manage to arrive at the ceremonial handover of the electric generator that we jointly provided for the Kapitoshka preschool institution in Bucha. The vehicle in which Radovan, Mario, and Nikolas traveled from Zagreb all...
THURSDAY, MAY 7 On Thursday, May 7, at exactly three o'clock in the afternoon, in Bucha, a sizable group of people gathered in front of the main entrance to the Kapitoshka kindergarten. Some of them were in dark suits and silk ties, while others held cameras...