Windows to Russia

Everywhere you look there is a church steeple… Artist are allowed to paint the utility buildings and they do a fantastic job… Ice Cream and Money: Russians love both. I love this picture and it is “So Russian!” To me Russia is so beautiful and when you walk around you never know what you will […]

I think that a start to the new year is important and how it starts, is how it is going to go for the rest of the year. Financially America just started really bad and it has nothing to do with the inflation driven stock market. It has to do with real world happenings and […]

Dear friends, We are about to enter a new year, 2014. In a few minutes, we will take a step from the present into the future. Celebrating this wonderful holiday is one of our most heartwarming traditions. It is passed on from generation to generation, bringing us all together. Of course, we faced some problems […]

Everyone has different things that matter to them. Everyone has a different outlook on what is important. Everyone has a different take on life. I am no different than you, you, you or you! This is what I am thinking this morning as I sip my cup of hazelnut coffee and take my pills. These […]

I am amazed and very happy for the end of the year weather wise in Moscow, Russia. It has been wonderful and not cold. It has been staying around freezing and no lower. It is muddy, but a little mud is a blessing in place of the -20 below zero normal weather. I will not […]

Buy meat off the truck in our housing area… Above… Sputnik! That is what our town is famous for… The market has all the meats… The market has all the dairies… Sveta and I took a walk and since I have been feeling better (I think due to a penicillin taking session, that I am […]

First attack is in the video. You have to play it a couple of times. It happens quick and will shock you… Then the second attack is just a photo. The photo says a thousand words. I look at this photo and think about how massive these trolleys are and they are like a tank, […]

These are not in order as the difference between the top post and the bottom post is less than a hundred page views. I could have listed hundreds of posts in this same basic range, but these squeaked out over the others. The blog had over 6 million page views this year and that was […]

Christmas message of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to the Archpastors, Pastors, Monastics and All the Faithful Children of the Russian Orthodox Church. Your Eminences the archpastors, honorable presbyters and deans, God-loving monks and nuns, dear brothers and sisters! Today our churches are filled with people who have come to praise […]

Sveta, Boza and I would like to wish everyone a merry Christmas western style… I made Sveta’s favorite dessert in the world today, Pumpkin Pie. It is cooling as I type this, it is in the window sill in the kitchen. We will also have a very Russian type entree, being Salt Salmon and black […]