Like nomads, but with more stuff

Our new Consul General invited the Consulate to accompany him on a tour of Lenfilm back in December. Lenfilm, for those who don't know...

In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Terry and I decided to do a bit of touristing. One place we'd been meaning to see was Pete...

Russia observes New Year plus Orthodox Christmas over the first 9-10 days of January, depending on the location of weekends. When the host ...

This Christmukkah Terry and I participated in a form of "direct charity" via a blog I have come to love, Rants from Mommyland (ww...

I started to walk into the living room with half an orange I was going to eat in relative quiet while the kids had a snack in the kitchen a...

So if you know my mom - and as she's one of two readers of this blog, I know you do - you know she, um, likes to shop. Last year she ...

In anticipation of the likely upcoming budget cuts, State has decided to return our Kovenskii building to its former configuration of hous...

It's hard to see with all the junk up on the counter, but the kids asked me to turn the lights off and they were just watching the can...

A large part of my job is organizing the celebration of American holidays. There's also the "job" of being co-president of th...

A friend alerted me to what appeared to be a samovar festival. It was definitely some kind of fair thing, sponsored by Petersburg Samovars,...