A Few Days Ago, I Took My Mail-in Ballot to the Post Office A few days ago, I took my mail-in ballot to my local post office, more than a week ahead of the actual deadline to vote by mail. As I walked out of the post office after carefully depositing my mail-in ballot in the inside mail slot – a...
One of Many Ruins of Abbeys …and forever, it seemed, he always felt a touch of melancholy in the late afternoon and early evening, perhaps always regretting the waning of the light, of the golden light of the lowering sun, a fading that reminded his mind and heart over and over, that the day, that...
I Only Wanted to Live I have read many books on the Holocaust, but this book is unique and important in many ways. Written a few years ago entirely by the author, now in his eighties, the book is based on his memories of the Holocaust as a boy between the ages of about seven through...
A Tale of Two Signs, of Two Minds and Hearts, of Two Paths & Perhaps a Cautionary Tale *** One afternoon some months ago, I took my weekly extended walk, a path of about three and half miles, and as I traveled through my neighborhood and wended my way through the side streets and cul-de-sacs,...
Joseph the Cat, Safe and Sound and Still Residing in Chernihiv, Ukraine Кіт Йосип, цілий, неушкоджений, все ще проживає в Чернігові, Україна *** Introduction I received a few comments about my May 1, 2022 posting , "What Cat Doesn’t Enjoy a Little Sun?". One was from a cat lover insisting on more...
What cat doesn’t enjoy a little sun? Яка кішка не любить маленьке сонечко? What cat doesn’t enjoy a little sun? Especially if the concrete is already pleasantly warmed. This cat is a beautiful charcoal color of various shades of gray, with light green eyes, holding still,...
On Easter They Will Celebrate with Joy and Thanksgiving the Resurrection of Christ На Великдень з радістю і вдячністю святкуватимуть Воскресіння Христове Before the Russian invasion, our friends in Kyiv and their church community were busy enlarging and remodeling the church building to...
A Five-Year-Old Girl at Disneyland in California, the Happiest Place on Earth & A Six-Year-Old Girl in Ukraine, in Cartoon Unicorn Decorated Pajamas П'ятирічна дівчинка в Діснейленді в Каліфорнії, найщасливіше місце на Землі і шестирічна дівчинка в Україні, в мультяшній єдиноріг прикрашеній...