'Wash Post' Columnist Applebaum Heads to Poland to Be With Husband

By: E&P Staff In her Washington Post column today, writer Anne Applebaum announced that her column will disappear for the next three weeks while she relocates to Poland to be with her husband, who is that country's defense minister.

"I concede that there really was something odd about living for the past year in Washington while my husband ran for election to the Polish senate, joined the government there and became defense minister," wrote Applebaum. "There was a long prehistory to the situation (we lived in Poland before, my husband was in government before) and a good explanation for it (I wanted my children to finish the school year here), but it's still been surreal to read about his life in the Polish press -- while waiting in that carpool line on my way to the supermarket."

Applebaum conceded that in the age of cyberspace it was less important where she was writing her column from, but she still felt the need to explain to her readers that she would soon be filing her stories from "Poland or somewhere close by."