• The Current Situation

Put these sunflower seeds in your pocket, so they’ll bloom when you die on Ukrainian soil.

My long-time friend Marichka Melnyk (I met her in 1989!) made me aware of this exchange between a Ukrainian woman…

• funny

The next book in the series is “How to train your dog to stay off the ottoman”

• The Current Situation

Not cool

• Florida

I had to do something similar for my Green Card

• funny

Happy Valentine’s Day, part 2!

• It Happened to Me

Happy Valentine’s Day!

This is our tenth Valentine’s day together, and we’re still loving it. Hope yours is a happy one!

• The Current Situation

My first encounter with “Maus” in 1987

My first encounter with Maus — the graphic novel recently banned by the school board in McMinn County in Tennessee —…