Daily Archives: April 2, 2018

The Road to the Future

Which pre-war life? When did this pre-war life start? Was it the life of the Russian Empire? The Belarusian People’s Republic? Did the pre-war life include the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921? Do those wide steady steps at the bottom include … Continue reading

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Before he became a patsy

vulica Kamunistyčnaja 4. Lee Harvey Oswald called this apartment building home from 1960 to 1962. Morning view across the street from Oswald’s apartment.

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Texas woman jailed for five years for voting while on probation

Some of these things I read and re-read. Guardian: A Texas woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to vote in the 2016 presidential election when she was ineligible because she was on probation.

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Isle of Tears

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The Pit

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Alexandrovsky Square

Park across the street from where my grandfather lived in the 1920s. His building is gone but the park and the fountain are still here. My grandparents must have come here, must have walked these paths.

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