I’m not really sure what to say about the year 2016. “At least we didn’t all die in a nuclear blast” is one good thing I could mention, I guess. On a personal level, it was a year of disappointments and setbacks, fears and frustrations, but also the year in which I sat in aContinue reading “Writing round-up, 2016: Six non-horrible things that happened this year”
Category Archives: Good News
NEW: poetry and essays archive
Dear friends, subscribers, and people who take offense at my Guns n’ Roses references, I wanted to point out that the new poetry and essays archive is now available on this site. It doesn’t contain all of my poetry and essays. Just the stuff that I like most. Yeah, yeah, it’s presumptuous to self-publish poetry.Continue reading “NEW: poetry and essays archive”
A note of thanks
I just wanted to thank all of you again for subscribing, liking and donating. You are the reason this blog continues to exist. It started out as more of an emotional outlet than anything else, but in recent years, it has become something different. It is now a repository of work that I hold dear – andContinue reading “A note of thanks”
Thank you, guys!
I’ve sent out some e-mails, but am not sure if everyone has gotten them, so I just want to take a moment to say THANK YOU SO MUCH, GUYS – for supporting this blog, for donating, for liking, for sharing, for commenting, and for generally being there. This means everything to me. I used toContinue reading “Thank you, guys!”
Nobody’s hopeless, everything is broken
I woke up today and immediately saw two bits of news: The Russian Patriarch gave Dmitry Kiselyov, Russia’s top propagandist, a church award. I was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church and, even though the church has always taken orders from the government in Russia (it was never the other way around, as many peopleContinue reading “Nobody’s hopeless, everything is broken”
Natalia A. 