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From Lenin’s Asylum: Two Years in Moldova, by A. A. Weiss (Everytime Press, 2018), Kindle pp. 182-184: The first week at school passed without any major incidents. There weren’t any fires or drunk students or kids challenging me to...
Good news: My Garmin watch gave me a decent sleep score last night (76/100) and all stats were rated fair or better. More importantly, I felt I slept better. Not as good news but also not bad news, really: Today I started feeling off and...
New York City in the 1970s was a city on the edge. Overcrowded, underfunded, and gripped by a spiraling crime wave, it tested the limits of every institution trying to hold it together, none more so than the men and women of the New York...
I’m no runner. Strap a pair of flashy sneakers on me, snap on an elastic waistband, and tie my golden locks back into a ponytail and I generally have no idea what to do next. But when the bus is coming around the corner or the train is...
This game is set in World War II and depicts the battle between Germany and the USSR. This is a two player game and the story starts with Germany initiating the invasion of the Soviet Union. Every few rounds both players will score...
I recently watched two East German movies about World War Two on Kanopy. Here are my initial impressions. “Star-Crossed Lovers” [Königskinder] (DEFA, 1962), dir. Frank Beyer This film is about two young men and a young woman, friends...
This is our first day of work at Isthmia this season so everything is a bit topsy turvy. There was a time when I could switch from working on one thing to working on another with the alacrity of spec-ed our MacBook Pro, but these days,...
On Twitter (forgive me!) I asked if anyone who’d been a camper back in the day wished their parents had had photos of them sent home daily, as so many overnight camps do now. The “NO!” vote was 93%. Small sample, but still… Then came...
I’m apparently supposed to know how to build loyal subscribers. Because I have a blog. By the same logic, if you own a bird feeder, you should understand birds. I do not understand birds. I understand that they arrive. They eat. They...
Welcome to my garden. After more than a decade of growing vegetables, I've learned a lot of things. Most of them right after doing something wrong. This post isn't for the fancy people who buy their broccoli at the grocery store like...