finding my place in the world

I've been a happy camper all week. Temperatures have plummeted, and there has been plenty of snow. It truly feels like winter, I finally...

Arkhangelsk is listed in my guidebook, and I found out the mom of one of my previous students is from there, so it seemed like a good place ...

  Sometime during my second year in Moscow, Claire and I saw an eye catching photo on social media of a monastery on an island in a lake. We...