Tag Archives | in-laws

Post Cards from the Edge

By on 18/07/2010

About three days into her first term at boarding school in the USA, my daughter Velvet discovered the significance of snail mail, something, which had gone unnoticed during her twelve years in Russia.  “Mommy,” she wailed down the phone to me, “send me some mail!” So, I put a 44-cent stamp on a card and [...]

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Day of the Furniture Makers/День мебельщика: Let’s Hear it For The Swedes!

By on 12/06/2010

As we say in Russia: “If there’s an idea, there’s IKEA,” and there is nothing quite like a day out at that island of Nordic calm to make you feel like the world makes sense again.

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More Blessed to Give, Than to Receive

By on 21/04/2010

If I could make one definitive contribution to Russian culture (apart, that is, from getting those clueless types with Brezhnev eyebrows who manage National Hotel to understand why they, like the Plaza in New York, can, and should put a portrait of enfant terrible par excellence, Eloise in their lobby) it would be this:  the [...]

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Russians En Route

By on 07/01/2010

All the starm and drang of Christmas and New Year’s seems like a long time ago, now that HRH and I are ensconced in the lovely Sugar Mill (not it’s real name) in beautiful St. Croix…

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Hide and Seek

By on 30/12/2009

I’m exhausted from single-handedly pulling off Christmas, and I am having trouble womaning up to single-handedly pull off New Year’s Eve. But I have to, because New Year’s Eve is the main event for Russians

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