Natalia Antonova

Ukraine makes me feel pretty

I don’t know how or why exactly. Maybe it has something to do with working up a healthy glow after arguing politics for four hours straight in one sitting. Or maybe it’s because the country is poorer, and people’s perception of beauty is a tad more diversified and realistic.

My mother

Was walking home one evening, when she saw a girl and a boy standing outside a dorm (we live next to a small college). The boy was yelling and swearing and pushing at the girl, and she was standing there shaking, and my mother, seeing and hearing all this, couldn’t help herself. So as sheContinue reading “My mother”

I fucking hate dial-up

Kiev is grey, but great.

If You Want to Adopt a Pet from a Shelter this Christmas

Here are some easy steps you can take to prevent the shelter staff from ripping your throat out and ruining your holiday: 1. Don’t stand by with a “awww-isn’t-this-cute” look on your face while your two-year old attempts to climb into the raging, bite-quarantined Pit Bull’s cage. 2. Don’t tell the front desk staff thatContinue reading “If You Want to Adopt a Pet from a Shelter this Christmas”

“You have a freak-flag. You just don’t fly it.”

Holidy films are inevitably cheesy. Perhaps Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” is a kind of exception, but still. What I like about holiday films is that they, also inevitably, show people coming home. I have been obsessed with the idea of home ever since I realized that I was no longer sure where thatContinue reading ““You have a freak-flag. You just don’t fly it.””