About

I’m Vicki.

 Sometimes I go to the Dead Sea.

Sometimes I go to Scotland.

Usually, I just like to go.

I was born in Russia. I didn’t have a first name for a month, then I  was named after a breed of strawberry growing on my grandmother’s dacha in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. My full name is Victoria but I hate being called that because I don’t think I’ll ever grow into it.

When I was five, in 1991, my parents (and half of Russia, apparently) decided that Russia was unhealthy for human beings and hightailed it to America.

When I was growing up, I knew 2.5 other Russian Jews and no one was writing about our experiences. I also didn’t know anyone else that was as weird as me. So, sometimes I write about being Russian and Jewish. But sometimes I also write about feminism, careers, economics, Nutella,running, or what I did yesterday. So think of this blog as a bowl of weird multiethnic jungle juice that I continuously stir.

Today, I live in the Philadelphia metro area . Me and my nice Russian Jewish husband, Mr. B and I just bought a house there.  In real life, I work with Big Data and next-generation TV technology. Basically, I get paid to watch TV all day. I’m also working on my MBA, which I estimate will take 6 million years.

Before Philly, we used to live in and love Washington, D.C. and I will always bring up why DC is better than Philly.

Before that, we got married in a sketchy New Jersey park by a rabbi who performed Saturday weddings and our Russian DJ at our reception was also a real estate agent. Before that, Mr. B proposed to me in a synagogue in the city of Prague, which I hated. (Prague, not the synagogue or the proposal.) Before that, I lived alone as a Little Girl in a Big City and cried myself to sleep every night for a month until I decided I was being lame and started loving DC. Before that, I went to college and majored in Economics and minored in Being A Nerd.

Before that, Mr. B’s family and my family immigrated from the former Soviet Union.

*** I’ve been writing since I was 5 when I told my parents I was working on my autobiography. I write for Jewlicious, Swift Economics, New Eurasia, and Interfaith Family. I’mwriting editing my first novel , which I wrote during NaNoWriMo. I also review books from time to time.

You can email me: vicki.boykis@gmail.com.