Comrade rides upon a Siberian steed ! Kit “Comrade” Baker - He just that friend that… gets it . Gets it so much you go to SIBERIA...

my new "What About Bob?" shirt Making my own cold brew coffee. Having slumber parties ! Singing my face off ( with my gr...

©Julia Murney We all know the joke. Okay... well most of us know the joke. "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The answer i...

JULY visiting the oboe doctor with Lilly driving to Philadelphia seeing Max kill it as Che in Evita turning 29 socializing my FAC...

Sometimes, you just have to get away with your very favo(u)rite people. The kind of people who remind you that a constant flow of meaningful...

Dear Blog-o-sphere, I am so sorry to have been a bit quiet recently. I needed the quiet. Very much. Isn't it interesting that in...

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"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Sometimes you surprise yourself. So Com...

"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." --Anton Chekhov

  "I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literat...

"Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many the...

51. Kit 52. Clouds 53. Roses 54. The feeling I get when I teach 55. My beautiful computer 56. My Fiddler family 57. My waist! ;-) 58....

We found the bakery. It was there all along. Like Brigadoon. We sat down and enjoyed some rather splendid baked goods and coffee. Then I g...

Soviet resolution to build The Metro We take the glorious Metro! The people's Palace of underground delights.  The Moscow Metro ( ...

12 August 2009 Moscow Tired. We walked nearly 12 kilometers yesterday and I slept like the dead. Vadim is an angel of hospitality, and w...

At the post office to register our visas. Whoa . What a torment. An avalanche of paperwork and government bureaucracy required to visi...

11 August 2009 Moscow Day one. доброе утро! Good morning Moscow, and what a glorious, clear day. Having (somewhat) recovered from...

"His name is Emmanuelle..." he chews on the name like a sour taste. He wets and purses his mouth, scrunches his shoulders, The f...

Mankind is looking for something, and will certainly find it. Oh, if it only happened more quickly. - Anton Chekhov There is a moment o...

10 August, 2009 Moscow In Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don't know anybody and where nobody knows you, and ...