THis snapshot is the only momento I have of a girl I was in love with when I was in my late teens. She is the smiling blond near the center of the photograph. When I say I was in love with her, I am speaking from later knowledge. At the time – the late … Read more
Mother was a smart, resourceful, attractive, tactless, competitive and practical person. She was what was called a girl with promise, and if times were different, she might have fulfilled that promise. She had wanted to write and paint, but instead she married and had children. She worked for a while before marriage but as soon … Read more
‘Because it stinks and because it is everywhere. Where will you find me a soul not filled with this kvas?’– Hryhorii Skovoroda, translated by George L. Kline and Taras D. Zakydalsky On February 24th I woke up around five o’clock in the morning. It wasn’t that something had woken me up, no, first I woke … Read more