family: And Dessert Was Delicious...
- 04/13/12 12:58 PM
I am coming from office home. 4.2 miles barefoot on the beach is not just an exercise, but a lot of fun. It is getting darker when I get home, and my wife is in the kitchen and there is only under counter light on. Not much. I want to turn on the light, but she stops me and tells me I shouldn’t. Why not? Because the roll-down curtains are up, and she is négligé. Hmm, I do not get the logic. If there is someone outside watching, why make them strain their eyes? I understand that she should shine, but … (10 comments)
family: Proud Parent
- 03/29/12 11:40 PM
There is a saying that when our children are little, they think that their parents know everything. When they are in their early 20s, they think that their parents know nothing. And when they are in their 40s, they think that their parents know something... Pretty much the opposite is true. When the children are little, we are proud parents. Every achievement makes us proud, and it is noticed and praised. And as they grow, it changes to worries more than pride through the terrible teens. We are rarely proud of them when all they (in our opinion) are making mistakes … (21 comments)
family: A Monument To My Grandmother…
- 02/29/12 01:15 PM
51 years ago a Russian/Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko published a poem “Babiy Yar”. I am convinced that no other poem in the Soviet Union/Russia had the same effect as Babiy Yar. Ever… It was like a nuke exploded in the Soviet Union. For so many people it was a breath of fresh air, a word of truth said in the empire of lie. For many others it was what a red cloth is to the enraged bull… No, I do not think that this is the best poem ever written in Russian… but this poem stands out not on its … (19 comments)
family: Pursuit of Happiness
- 03/26/11 07:16 AM
No, this is not about the Constitution, it is about Gary Woltal's blog. He is guilty for making me think on this wonderful warm and sunny day in Daytona Beach. Gary posted Avoiding Mono Mania In Life. It is usually very difficult to be in disagreement with Gary, but this time I felt I was, or, let's say, I was not completely agreeing. I started writing a comment, but when it went beyond a couple of paragraphs, I scraped it and started this post. I think what Gary is saying would work for majority of us. Making our lives … (10 comments)
family: A Train To Childhood
- 08/02/09 02:14 PM
When I first ran into Jason Crouch's announcement, I did not have any intention to try it. Well, if I did not do it then doing it now, after some absolutely awesome blogs have been posted, is more like a suicide. Possibly. But our memories are unique, and our time and personal geographies are unique. Reading the memories of others, I was thinking of my own. I gotta be out of my mind to be competing for the Grand Prize, so I am not. I am simply rolling the hand of my clock back...many-many years back. My brightest memories were not from the place in middle Russia, … (50 comments)
I am coming from office home. 4.2 miles barefoot on the beach is not just an exercise, but a lot of fun.
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