Category: General Polebilly Stories and Thoughts
The Things We Say, Do, and Think About
The Hills of West Virginia
Hello everyone… after a break over the holidays and a trip home, I am back! I hope that all of you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year with those you hold dear. I hope you made memories to hold you over […]
The Wisdom of Dziadek
When I was about 5 years old we made the move from Chicago to West Virginia, leaving our Polish family behind. We visited on a regular basis after that, but I didn’t grow up immersed in the entire Polish experience the way […]
Thirty Years of Awesome
It’s mid-December and we’re once again right in the middle of the holiday season. This time of year always seems to fly by me in a blur as I’m sure it does for many. We all have things to do and places […]
Babcia’s Beautiful Heart
Sometimes we need a reset. We need to clean out, recalibrate, and refresh. It happens to everyone now and then. That attention light comes on and we’re scrambling to figure out what needs to be aligned again. It may be a minor […]
Babcia was born in Dziemiany Kascierayna, Poland in 1942. Dziemiany is a small village in northern Poland, just southwest of Gdansk. It is part of the Pomeranian province. I guess you could say we’re Pomeranian… which explains a lot. Pomeranian puppies are […]
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