December 2009

Happy 2010!

December 30, 2009

I’m going into hibernation for a couple of days.   Happy 2010 and Mr. B and I wish you the very, very best.  Thank you for reading and commenting and making my life a bit warmer

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China and Russia Face Each Other on the Banks of the Amur River

December 30, 2009

I came across this really interesting story yesterday, which details the relations between Russia and at Blagoveschensk in Siberia and Heihe in China, across the Amur river. source. The tension between Russia and China has been going on for quite some time, especially as the Chinese population continues to grow and rend at the seams of the country and Russia’s Siberian frontier remains vastly uninhabited (except, for of course, the Chukchi, who are, coincidentally, my favorite Russian nationality to pronounce, ...

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Letter to my one blog visitor from Shiraz, Iran

December 29, 2009

Dear Solitary Blog Visitor from Shiraz, Iran: How did you get to my blog?  Were you Googling, perhaps, “marry russian man his mother cook chicken” or “map of the life of ari ben canaan”  or “russian mushroom folklore ” as several visitors who have come to my blog from Google have done?  Were you trying to get some purpose from what I write?  Or just stumbling through on your way to somewhere much more important? When I look at that dot, ...

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Best of 2009

December 29, 2009

You may notice that I have been putting up very picture-heavy posts to distract you away from the fact that I haven’t had any content, like some kind of bread and circuses program.  That’s because I am getting ready for THE NEW YEAR.  You’ll be seeing some changes (for the better-I hope!) on the blog to make it look a little more solid. In the meantime, I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite blog posts from last  year. ...

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Pictures: A Florida Sunset

December 28, 2009

Shayna is my friend from college and is one of the sunniest, friendliest people I know. So it would make sense that she would take the sunniest, warmest photos.  She recently moved to Florida where she took these pictures of a sunset at a fancy golf course. What’s crazy is that she doesn’t have a professional SLR camera. Given that I am in the Frigid North, they warmed my heart immediately.  Hopefully you like them, too.  Enjoy. (You can click ...

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