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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Scraps of Memories: USSR Trip

Just a sampling of the souvenirs and scrapbook entries from my high school trip to the Soviet Union. On the way back we had a one-night layover stop in Stockholm, so some of the later entries are in Swedish and not in Russian.

Highlights included Moscow, Red Square, Lenin's Tomb, The Bolshoi, Leningrad, Zagorsk, cemeteries, The Hermitage, the cultural delights of everyday things like the subways, Pepsi products, conversations on the toilet "paper" (i.e. sandpaper), then to Stockholm, McDonald's, etc.

Even after all these years, I still have my Russian Scarf and my nesting doll, as well as a few pins, not pictured here.

My apologies to Nicolai for not warning her that her high school self might show up in some of these pictures. Sorry Nic.

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