March 1, 2011
How I Met the Russian
I get asked all the time how I met my husband. Pretty simple story: girl meets boy. Girl dances with boy. Girl marries boy. And life is never the same again...
February 17, 2011
Fighting with the Russian
I define my marriage as happy but not perfect. We fight. Well – fight may be too strong a word, I should say we argue a good deal. The Russian is stubborn, I’m a pain in the ass...
December 17, 2010
The Russian Cure for Hemorrhoids
After 11 years of marriage, I’m still learning stuff about the Russian. How one cures hemorrhoids in his country, for example...
September 14, 2010
Pizza and Paintings and Fights, Oh My!
Married people fight about moronic things. A pizza triggered World War III at the Smirnov house the other night...
September 1, 2010
Amazing Color Photos of Old Russia
Archival photographs, you’re thinking, so what? But here’s the thing — to look at them, you’d think some were taken yesterday...I’m just not used to seeing photos from 1910 in this kind of color — it makes the places and people seem so vivid and alive.
August 14, 2010
How to Eat a Horse
My husband brought horsemeat back from his recent trip to Russia. As we speak there is a hunk of Seabiscuit sitting in a Ziploc in my fridge...
August 6, 2010
What the Russian Brought Home from his Trip
My husband returned home from a trip to the Motherland with five pounds of stinky fish in his luggage...
