My contributions to the illustrious Frederick News Post can be found here:

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/online_exclusives.htm

I may post here too from time to time, if I wish to be more whiny or cheesy than I find acceptable by the high journalistic standards of the FNP. A rant about the Lutheran Church of Tomsk was much curtailed in my latest, as yet unposted column, for instance. I wonder why I think people want to read these things?

Our neighbor at the dacha/village house, Vitya with half his teeth, gave me a flower the other day. I was very pleased.