Now I say that with some sadness. I have done my packing, its 3am in Kyiv. In two hours we will climb in a cab for the airport.

Wow being sick while traveling on business is my least favorite thing in the world � well maybe not my least favorite thing. There was that time in the Saudi Arabian dessert where I was stuck in a broken down vehicle, cold and running out of food and I� well that�s a different story.

My latest obsession: The Conet Project Call me late to the party, but I recently discovered this. In short, The Conet Project is the title of a collection of recordings from shortwave radios all around the world. But these are not simply people jabbering with each other. These are recordings of ‘numbers stations’. The first […]

Can not come out to blog or play. Kyiv is still enchanting us. Some highlights: met many new people. I am getting a sense for the frankness of the people here.

After a great night�s sleep in our awesome apartment. A word about our abode. One of our contacts here had helped us find an apartment to rent in the older part of the city. Complete with 20� ceilings, windows almost as tall, a balcony overlooking one of the central streets and comfortable beds.

So where has life decided to take me but to the Ukraine. And though by the last leg of our flight from Amsterdam to Kiev I felt like a wadded damp towel in a mildewy New Orleans bathroom, I was still feeling excited when we landed.

For a long time I’ve had a problem with feminism. Frankly I’m pissed that now I have to go out to work, instead of staying home to be a housewife and mother. I didn’t ask for that. The economy in this country makes it such that for someone my generation to achieve the goal of full time housewife, you have to marry rich (well maybe not rich, but certainly very well). I suppose had I shopped for a husband in a state other than California, I may have had an easier time realizing my career goals, as it turned out, however, my husband, even though acquired through Yahoo! was local.

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” Leo Tolstoy “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” Leo Tolstoy

So, my husband and I were carpooling to work today, as we do every day, listening to Air America. The commercials came on and I was only half listening, but there was a woman talking and I’ll paraphrase here what she said:

“Kids don’t just ask questions, they set traps. Like asking, ‘Mommy, why does it get dark?’ The next thing you know I’m trying to explain stars and black holes and grrrrr. Then I think, ‘Thank goodness for movies. Kids don’t ask questions if they’re watching a movie.'”