Waking up this morning with a cup of *Republic Darjeeling Black Tea; stepping back for a moment to pause and reflect on the last few months in geishaland, since I really haven’t done so in a while – as well as throwing in a few random scattered thoughts here and there on this lovely Thursday [...]

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 [...]

I’m crushed. Bereft even. My son has a girlfriend. The other afternoon when it was raining here he waited by her bus stop with an umbrella so she wouldn’t get wet when he walked her home. I can’t take it. I can’t get the little brat to clean up his [...]