Knowing that the Grim Reaper comes for those who are indeed first in line given their age and health issues does not make loosing a family ...

Today is an important day for me and my family - it is our Slava Day, or the day we pay our respects to the patron saint of our ancestors, ...

It will be two years to the day tomorrow that my father died. He was 56. I remember everything about that day, minute by minute. I remem...

News of births and deaths have dominated almost every single day of the past month and a half and it's getting a bit too much for me at...

It's been a busy one. New haircut, short, to avoid pulling all my hair up and securing it with plastic hair clips or, gasp, even a scru...

I always thought you will be there, looking at me with those smiling eyes, telling me: ‘hey kiddo, you’ve finally grow up, and I think...