Today, December 17th, is a big day. I should have written about this earlier, of course, but the past week has been a bad week for updates, and I’ve totally dropped the ball. I’m a jerk.
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
The Bloop! The Great Wyrm Rises! And Lake Somino!
Because it has recently popped up in a Cracked article, I have been reminded of my fasination with the Bloop. Now, as I have written previously on this site – my father once had a fascinating encounter with an enormous creature that’s not supposed to exist. It happened off the coast of Crimea, during aContinue reading “The Bloop! The Great Wyrm Rises! And Lake Somino!”
Snow-beaten
The wind is rattling the windows again. It’s colder in our neighbourhood, up on the hills, higher than the center. We are up near Batiy’s Mountain, as they call it, a place where some warlord named Batiy once came and pitched his tent to survey the city below him. And on quiet nights around here,Continue reading “Snow-beaten”
Goodbye Alexiy
That’s all for today. People in my family are pretty upset, but 79 is as good of an age to go as any, I suppose, especially when you consider the enormous stress of being in his position. The future of the Russian Orthodox church remains as open as it has ever been. But wherever AlexiyContinue reading “Goodbye Alexiy”
I have missed the European gloom
It’s the sort of thing you don’t expect to miss, not really, but there you go. It’s the gloom that makes you appreciate tea, cashmere, stockings, cats, the long hiss of the electric kettle, the howling of dogs in the night. You discover the true value of cinnamon, picture albums, and the feeling that aContinue reading “I have missed the European gloom”
Natalia A. 