The Chronicles of Bosnia 2025/2026

Charles celebrated his 65th birthday this month. I am married to an old man, 65 never looked so good! For his birthday I bought him a new birthday suit.   One of the perks of doing humanitarian work here is all the road trips we get to crisscross this gorgeous country and stumble onto some seriously ancient treasures.    The other day in Stolac we checked out an old necropolis ( basically a giant medieval cemetery). But not just any cemetery… these stone monuments are the size of altars, carved between the 1200s–1400s, and still looking amazing with all the carvings on the stones .   The carvings were so detailed you could just stand there and get lost in them. The whole place had this sacred, time-travel feel C Charles was in absolute heaven. He even let me buy him a T-Shirt.  We took a three-hour drive to the little town of Berkovići in southwestern Herzegovina to meet families applying for a greenhouse. The program is a partnership with the county and ou...

We joined our friend Admir from Muslim Aid in Olovo to help deliver 16 pregnant cows to needy families. These beauties, soon to be milk machines, made the long trip to Bosnia from Germany.  Trying to move  them into tiny trailers reminded me of  a small town rodeo. They were all a little nervous. One cow bolted, dragging two men through a field before ditching them in the grass (don’t worry, she was soon caught and delivered to her new owner)                                  I th ink this cow thought she was going to get away too,  but fortunately she jumped (or flew) right in into the little trailer.  Admir helping 💪 A few are pushing each cow and even more are pulling them into  each trailer .              The biggest cow decided she would just lay down and not budge. The vet we had site, poured water on her head, tha t she did not lik...