Windows to Russia

Dependency in America is in a Catch 22; a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions… There is a thousand faucets to that Catch 22, but I am going to talk about what I see as the most important part and or the most potential […]

Time to read… PDF on Greer_on_collapse – a good read about what is going to happen and actually happening now. The collapse of complex human societies, while a subject of perennial scholarly and popular fascination, remains poorly understood. Tainter (1988), surveying previous attempts to account for the demise of civilizations, noted that most proposed explanations […]

In Moscow, village, and or even Siberia, you pass old women selling anything and everything. You see old women on the Metro stairs, they are on the buses and they are walking every street. They are all grandmas, but they all sell things to survive the harsh world we live in. If you love a […]

Weather measured in harshness or softness in Russia. I hear the Russians talk about -25 below zero as soft weather and sometimes -15 below zero is harsh weather. It confused me at first, then over the years, I have gathered what I need to understand what Russians mean about harsh weather and soft weather… After […]

Since there is a million recipes on this type of cookie and most know it as just plain Rock Cookies. I will not elaborate and just say, “This is an easy recipe, so make them, please and your family will eat them all up…” Good for a long winter day, use whatever you have as […]

It is January 6th and that means it is Christmas Eve in Russia… Merry Christmas Russia and may the new year of 2015 be one of happiness and joy… Merry Christmas from Windows to Russia Sveta, Boza and Kyle… Posted by Kyle Keeton Windows to Russia… Merry Russian Orthodox Christmas…

I stepped out the backdoor this morning, it was black and the wind was blowing at around 20 kilometers an hour, blasting straight into my face. That was the good part, the bad part was the temperature. I do not know the temperature and I do not care. I just know that it was frozen, […]

In chess terms this is “push (ing) the pawn.” Nothing much may come of it, or it could be a game changer. Russia knows this, which is why they did it… Russia has presented a startling proposal to overcome the tensions with the EU: The EU should renounce the free trade agreement with the United […]

You should read. No, I do not mean the computer screen (nor magazines, smartphones, and or other reading devices,) I mean read, read a book today. I do not care if you read, “See Spot Run!” Just read any book with real paper pages and either hardback or soft back, then read another after that […]

Burger King is in hyper-drive: I talked about this recently; Burger King and Pepsi-co having Coke and McDonald’s for dinner… Now, a month later Burger King opens another one in our town… Officially it opens today on the 4th, it opened one day before New Year and then close for a few more days. Guess […]