What fun to find old newspaper articles from my time living in Krakow in the spring of 2011! Check out a few articles written during my Poland year: Drop in: The Kiełbasa Van This piece is from the August 2011 edition of the Krakow Post, Poland's English-language newspaper. August 2, 2011 On a dark street near the …
Nowa Provincja, a cafe in Krakow where I met Polish students for English lessons back in 2011. “Ok, now bring your left leg to the front - circle your ankle,” I told three elementary-school age girls facing me, standing on one leg in a park. It was a beautiful mid-August day. The temperature was in …
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Fabulous travel writer Charish Badzinski invited me to be featured in her Rollerbag Goddess Global Communications series on lady travelers, published yesterday. In the interview, I wrote about working in East Africa, living in Poland, and my subsequent travels. I write about what travel ultimately taught me: to trust, and keep moving. Check out the interview …
I created this book with images I made from around the world for my two sweet nephews in 2017. It was a year when I worked at a high-paced immigration coalition, and was regularly answering media calls to comment on President Trump's anti-immigrant executive orders and legislative nightmares, pull together major press conferences, put spokespeople …
The Bay of Thailand, next to magical Prachuap Khiri Khan. Misadventure and delight in a sleepy fishing village I stood waist-deep in the crystalline sea, my finger-tips slowly moving through the water. Across the horizon to my left and to my right, the soft curves of Ao Manao Bay’s rocky hills wrapped me in a …
Sophie Vodvarka Chicago-Based Freelance Writer 