January 2007 – Page 6

Happy Orthodox Christmas

Old-calendar style. My family is eating kootya, and I’m in Durham – with the best Christmas presents ever imaginable.

The humiliation of scraping out a very modest living mostly doing things I’d rather not to. The fact that you can’t find Chernigivske in blyadskii Durham. The fact that my brother is crying. Being treated as though I’m not a human being by persons who will go unnamed. The senseless jumble of highways and fast-food restaurants,Continue reading “Swallowing it down”

On Kiev

Leaving this city behind is always, always, like tearing skin off live flesh.

On the Lacrosse Case. Once More. With Feeling.

I am a Duke alum. I am also, at this point in time, a Duke employee. My views do not reflect the opinions of anyone, other than myself (that’s in case someone wants to get me fired for saying what I am about to say). This isn’t meant as a personal attack on anyone, or anContinue reading “On the Lacrosse Case. Once More. With Feeling.”