JenFX

I didn't mean for my last entry to land on the 4th of July, i.e. Independence Day. However, after opening an email this morning with the...

. . . my stay in Ukraine must come to an end. I can still remember the first time I actually became addicted to a Mexican soap opera - it wa...

OK, we're not really in the Soviet Union, but so much of what we are seeing in Crimea is a throw-back to the old days. Some of the stree...

The trip to Luhansk, where the 8th Annual American Studies Institute was held, was great. I got back last night after a week-long training ...

OK, so I'm trying to be clever with a song title again... but the main themes here are "dacha", a word meaning 'summer ho...

It may not be summer yet, but this heat wave has got everyone out in force with very few clothes on. Yesterday I went to the "island...

OK, Let's talk about the "secret city" that foreigners were not allowed anywhere near until 1989... this is where the Soviet S...