Those who know me personally know that I am not a religious person, but I definitely do not deny the existence of any higher powers. I have already expressed my attitude to this holy day, and more than once. As I’ve written before, it’s a time to stop and think about how we live our […]

The people who visit my site know that I mostly write about Love, my love to beer. And now, almost a week, I can’t write a word about beer. Because there’s a war come to my home… It came early Saturday morning, when the whole country was celebrating the last day of the holiday of […]

One more year has passed. It has been different for everyone – a loved one has left us and a new family member has arrived. When one door closes, another opens, as they say. Today I want to write about what is happening to us. After living for a certain number of years, we begin […]

Those who served in the army will understand me: the easiest thing is to march in step with the others, and if you also sing with a choir, it’s easier than anything else. Many of us walked that way for years without seeing anything around us. Back in 1956, in 1968, in 1979… We thought […]

In the city of Ulyanovsk (formerly called Simbirsk), there was a good tradition – every year on December 31 in the local Philharmonic Society they said goodbye to the past year with a performance of Joseph Haydn’s “Farewell Symphony”. The performance of this work resembled a theatrical production – the symphony came to an end, […]

Recently I read a little story. All Israelis know that from time to time the workers of the Jerusalem municipality take notes out of the Western Wall at night. They make place for new messages to the God. During this operation, one young man asked: how will He know about our prayers up there? – […]

“August must be shed slowly, like pear liquor. Pour into a small glass, drink a drop, and look through the glass at the sun. August nights should be diluted with candle lights, milk poured into a cup for a brownie, purring a cat and the chatter of grasshoppers. August days should be laid between the […]

I found out about the outbreak of war when I was in Africa. I was stunned by the news, I couldn’t believe it had happened. We were the only Russian-speakers in the Israeli group. In the evening (there was no Internet in the daytime), when I showed the group pictures of the destruction, everyone groaned, […]