Verunka's Voice

I spend a lot of time at the 49th street station here in NY because I temp at a company near there and for the past few months I have been noticing some really cool things happening to the advertisements in that station.

So, I have a wonderful cat named Kocour, which means cat in Czech. I guess I am attempting to be a little like Audrey Hepburn’s cat named Cat in Breakfast at Tiffany’s but with a Czech twist!

I was reading articles online and came across this article on Fortune’s website. This is such an amazing idea.

I just got Waldemar Matuska’s CD on iTunes and I am in heaven! He is definitely one of my favorite singers of all time! He is very animated which makes all the difference in the world.

(Image used courtesy of taliesin turtlehawk2002@yahoo.com) NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) NYC Metro will be holding an education event on June 26, is “Mental Illness and the Mind-Body Connection”.

Times Square is bustling with people at all hours of the day. I know because I walk through there every day to get to my temp job.

(Photo courtesy of: © 2010 Scott Rudd www.scottruddphotography.com) Marina Abramovic. She is amazing. I have never been a fan of performance artists in general because I always felt that people were trying too hard and it never came from a genuine place and they were just there to shock you. My friend, Phyllis Chen, introduced me to Marina and I am now sold. I have learned that in any type of performance, if it comes from a genuine place, b...

Daniela’s birthday is this Saturday. She will be turning 40 years old. This has always been a difficult day for me because she has been mentally ill since she was in her teens.

Many people that know me, know that Puccini’s opera, Tosca, is my favorite opera of all time. I got a chance to see it last night at the Metropolitan Opera House last night, live, for the first time in my life.

My mother’s room has pictures of me scattered all around; she is definitely a proud mother. Well, the other day she told me that she walked into her room and saw that all of the pictures were missing. In the past, Daniela (my schizophrenic sister), would often tear up or throw away pictures, so my mother was a bit worried. She walked over to Daniela’s room and was amazed. Daniela had taken all of the pictures from my mother’s r...