“Nothing too sweet,” she’d say, rolling her eyes with affection. “If I made cakes like we do back home, they’d think I was trying to kill them.”
The Patron Saint of Courgette Cake — A KAFO Story
Tag: Poland
Shattered Glass and Silver Linings: A KAFO Story
She had taken a job with Bella GoodCake, helping in the kitchen, delivering sandwiches by bicycle, and doing whatever else was needed.
Non, je ne regrette rien — A Kafo Story
Guilty as charged. The look on my face in those moments must have been as blank as a fresh Toulouse-Lautrec canvas.
The Man Who Preferred Tea — A KAFO Story
I even bought an SCA Coffee Taster's Flavour Wheel poster, privately thanking my lucky stars that I'd never tasted anything falling into the category labelled simply “Other”.
It Wasn’t Just The Coffee — A KAFO Story
Why the bamboo?” I whispered. “Does it change the science?”
The Springs of 2011
It was amateurish, unpretentious and completely unlike everything around it.
The Clean Entry — Catching The Third Wave
If a new wave of cafés had already arrived during my visits between 2007 and 2010, it slipped past me unnoticed. I wasn’t yet tuned to its frequency.
Port, Starboard and Visible Kindness
Would you like some woollen mittens? Any colour you’d like.
Spoko… spokoniej — railway stories
These trains had already carried thousands of stories long before mine ever began.
The Smaller World
Plan B: to abandon the audio entirely and act out the dialogue on international business etiquette myself.
Ghosts to Carry, Stories to Keep 