Ghulf Genes

Back, oh, some five or six years ago, my brother Baldy asked if I could lay my hands on some books in Hungarian. He had met a Hungarian Ben...

Thann longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.   [Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: Prologue ] The image I show was taken on September 16—yes,...

I was born in Budapest and have lived in many places, but by the chance of war and the clock’s rotation the Bavarian town of Tirschenreuth ...

I noticed today a banner appearing above Wikipedia pages with the following message: Thank you to all who helped write 200,000 articles on...

We planted a quince bush in our garden, a Father’s Day gift—one that surprised and specially delighted me. I encountered quince when I was f...

Back in the (mercifully brief) Nazi days in Hungary, all people employed by the state—beginning, I suppose, with a certain rank—had to prese...

A good one might be “Search for Sanity”—and that because March, in a sense, is dedicated to madness. Is that because Spring comes, at last, ...

Budapest formed on the eastern bank of the Danube around the slopes of what is now called Gellért hill, the highest point in the region. The...