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Walking around Belgrade, I thought about how little was left of the city I grew up in as a child. Near my street, I pass a Starbucks. In the past, there was a cafe called "Three Leaves of Tobacco" where the "Starbucks" now stands.

The Christened Slava (krsna slava), or Christened name (Krsna time) is the most characteristic feature of Serbs' spiritual and familial life. Celebrating Slava is one of the ways that Serbs differ themselves from other Christian groups.

And finally, a word or two about the Serbian language. I am learning it. And I make that statement confident in the fact that I will never be able to say that I have learned Serbian. It is not an easy language. How’s that for understatement?

When you visit Serbia—whether you grew up there or you are just visiting as a tourist—set aside at least one day for a trip outside the capital city of Belgrade and visit three sites of immense cultural, historical, and natural importance that leave every visitor speechless.

Long ago, from the beginning of the nineties of the last century, I started collaborating with our people in the dispersion. At a very young age, in my early twenties, I realized that many of our outstanding Serbian creators were born or created far from their home country.

Tesla was proud of his origins, so it seems appropriate that one of the first countries that approached us to help us in our mission to restore his historic laboratory was Serbia.

As winter and the holidays slowly approach, I believe that both potential buyers of real estate, as well as existing mortgage holders, were overjoyed when the Central Bank of Canada decided last October not to raise the primary interest rate.

Many of us feel like we are not progressing fast enough in our careers despite working diligently and hard. Experts remind us of the fact that "working hard is not enough".

This was my first trip to Africa, and that in its northernmost and closest country to Europe, Morocco. The adventure started with the touchdown in Casablanca.

Something divine helped the man-made. Some inexplicable and invisible power made it so that the frescos depicting the Nemanjićs and the White Angel, in the monastery Mileševa near Prijepolje, survive so many centuries.

Sixty years ago, the Hanna-Barbera studio brought us a cartoon series about the Jetson family (the futuristic counterpart to the prehistoric Flintstones) that amused us with peculiar gadgets, video calls, and intelligent home appliances.