A gift from my dear sweet friend Richard; two bottles of fresh home-made maple syrup from the rich sap producing trees of Maine are on my breakfast table this morning. Maple syrup is one of those staples of households everywhere across America – maple syrup on pancakes, French Toast and any other yummy uses [...]

He could hear the sirens getting closer. She’d been frantically emailing him for days, her pleas increasingly desperate as she begged him to leave the country. He knew the Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny were closing in. It was only a matter of time now before they kicked in the door of his hideout; a [...]