I have to admit, I cannot cook. You will probably laugh at me, but this is the truth: I cannot and that is that! When I was a teenager, I had no…
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When the “what if” question keeps coming to your mind…
January 25th, 2018. There have been exactly 5 years. And, amazingly, I do not forget, but I remember new details. Details that I had hidden in some corner of my mind, from…
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Sergiu Nicolaescu and jellies…
I was 9 years old when I met the director Sergiu Nicolaescu. While shooting the movie Wilhelm the Conquerer, a Romanian-Swiss-French coproduction. They needed a child to look like the actress playing…
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Rub the statue!
There are statues, sculptures, bas-reliefs all over the world that attract like a magnet tens of thousands of tourists. I am not referring now to works of art, but to those around…
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Collections and collectors
I have not collected anything since I was a child. In fact, nothing consciously, because, otherwise, I realized that I truly have some collections J. Do children today still collect things? Apart…
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I made an ass of myself (pardon my… Turkish) in Paris!
Did it ever happen to you to meet someone in the street and to squeeze your brain to remember where you know that person from? It happened to me several times. I…
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New Year’s Eve 2020 in Paris
It is the second time I do this: I wait until the last moment and then I jump into a plane and I fly some place. You’ll probably say this is an…
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Merry Christmas (may hit you) from all perspectives!
Some years ago, going to the cemetery on December 25th, three months after the death of my sister, the people there greeted us serenely, with “Merry Christmas!” I found the greeting so……
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I wrote to… Father Frost…
I found my letter for Father Frost! It is about 38-39 years old, if I judge by the way I wrote and by what I wanted… After St. Nicholas, who used to…
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How did you experience the Romanian Revolution in 1989?
Did you take pictures during the December ’89 Revolution? I did not. And I’m so sorry! I never thought I could have gone out with the camera. The only images I have…