Like nomads, but with more stuff

I drove to get Alex from preschool the other day to see how bad it is. Took longer to drive than it normally does to walk, not a big surpris...

We've had a heat wave in Piter - it's been in the 20s Fahrenheit. We were going over to a friend's house, driving. We'd go ...

The Russian word for sour cream is CMETAHA (pron. smetana). The different varieties can take up a whole shelf in the little produkty. CMETA...

The Consulate organized a tour of the Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory on MLK Day. We took the opportunity to leave the kids with the baby...

We had our first, terrifying to us as parents, experience with frostbite yesterday. Terry and Alex went sledding in Tavrichesky Park, where...

We keep forgetting to mention this astounding fact. At least in Russia, beer is considered a soft drink, like Coke, and is occasionally sold...

My boss in the past looked up the average number of sunny days in St Petersburg in the month of December. The source he found gave an avera...

St. Pete decided to welcome us back with a massive snowstorm. The snowfall itself is well over a foot and drifts are taller than me. It to...

Terry has returned to the USA to assist me in bring the kids back to Russia. This is what I have to look forward to ... a recent conversati...

On Halloween when Alex came back from trick or treating she was saying "candy". We realized she had never said that word before. O...