THIS AUTUMN, 4 years will have passed since I called Krakow, Poland my home. Skype was just coming into its own, and this was my first blog. I took my laptop, so this trip was different from all my other transcontinental travels – I had constant contact with my friends and family while living in a medieval, Polish-speaking town. That experience – connecting online while living separately – was a harbinger of things like Twitter and Facebook, and set the stage for how I communicate today. Reading it again is great – although that part where my keyboard kept dropping all the d’s can be confusing. Still, they’re good stories, all. And the sausage count – extraordinary! 
Since I returned to the states I’ve spent 3 of these last 4 years working on my new company, BookGlutton.com. Working on a new idea can be all-consuming, and I have to admit most of those years are a blur. Recently I started thinking about PL again. Just 3 weeks ago Aaron showed up with a bottle of Zubrowka vodka he picked up in Chicago, and we had a delicious Polish meal. Shortly thereafter I pulled out some of my videos – I was working on a video project at the time so I took quite a bit of non-touristy video.
Then, to my surprise, an article about BookGlutton showed up in the Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s most important newspaper, on Monday. Aaron remembers people reading it all over Poland, and our Polish language teacher Jagoda recommended we read it b/c it’s published near Krakow. We often get mentions outside the US, the Internet is worldwide after all, but this was really a big deal on a personal level. We’ve gotten quite a flood of visitors from PL and we hope to have more for them to read in Polish soon. The article is called Pożeracz książek w internecie and can be read here. Tom Crestodina, a friend from Poland I still keep in touch with, translated it and we’ll post it on BG’s blog.
Seems kinda full circle, and we’re launching our store on the site next month. Makes you wonder if this is some kinda of turning point….
