In the late spring of this year, May, my wife Anna and I left for Bulgaria, her home country and returned to our home in Indiana about three weeks later. While in Bulgaria, I challenged myself to fill three sketchbooks; a pocket sketchbook, a small sketchbook that fit into my…

Good bread is hard to find especially in the center of Indiana. Good bread is not terribly hard to find in Michigan where I was raised and where I routinely visit however. In south central Michigan great bakeries can be found. In Howell you can find Oh Crumbs! Bakery. Oh…

My wife Anna has a has a postcard mailed to Bulgaria from Detroit, Michigan in 1919. On the postcard George Daskalov, her great great uncle, writes to his mom, among other things: “Please start the sauerkraut and find for me a good wife.” His mother found for him a wife,…