The Blog Fodder

Yesterday, I finished a report that had been hanging over my head for a long time.  I put a real push on it last week or so which is why I ...

Some people eat to live; others live to eat.  I live to know, to absorb as much as I can about the past and present of countries and cultur...

The flower gardens were dry enough to walk on and spring bulbs are already a couple inches high, with small brave blooms on snowdrops and ...

Health care in Ukraine is free by the constitution.  It is illegal to pay a doctor or nurse at a state hospital or clinic.  However the sta...

Tanya had been talking about getting a sewing machine for years.  So today I put a gun to her head and made her buy one.  Told her I woul...

Exchange rates concern me as my pension is paid in CAD, converted to USD to send to Ukraine and then converted to UAH to spend. Everyone in...

Maps and charts are a hobby of mine since I am visually and spatially oriented.  Ran into some interesting ones about where people live. No...