Category Archives: Words & Thoughts

12/27/22 Almost to the Polish border.  Easy train trip, easy connection in Chelm, easy to get car, got books mailed (we had taken lots of luggage plus 13 kilos of books – it was a bit of a wrestle with … Continue reading →

12/20/22 Electricity went off per schedule at 9 a.m. and was off through the night. All water went off until later in the day. I went with _____ to _____ and _____, zero phone all all day. 12/21/22 Electricity still … Continue reading →

12/13/22 Still hard. Another painful conversation, same conclusions. Waited all day to hear from ____ professor re: narrowing material for the final, and from ____ and ____ about the project – no word from either. _____ meeting discouraging… 12/14/22 6:20 … Continue reading →

12/4/22 Made it through last week with no new mass attacks. 12/5/22 More afternoon strikes. None landed in Lviv or Kyiv city [Kyiv is also the name of an oblast, or state] but extended period of electricity out even here [in Lviv]. _____s invited … Continue reading →

12/1/22 EC [Mark’s meeting at the seminary] and then to Obolon to meet A——, and one brief air raid alert, but no attacks on Kyiv (had wondered if we’d get ‘gifts’ for the first day of winter [our cynicism ran pretty high … Continue reading →

[I was taking two on-line, “asynchronous” courses for my studies in counseling. I am so glad I did not have live classes that I needed to be online for every week, because it would not have been possible The increasing … Continue reading →

[The power was off 36 hours straight, from noon that day before Thanksgiving to midnight Thursday, Thanksgiving Day.] The power was on for two hours and 45 minutes (we didn’t stay up, but I woke up around 2:30 am, so … Continue reading →

Continuing from the last post: Between figuring out food and meals… I couldn’t really feel the impact of the strikes [Natalie was referring to] on Tuesday November 15th. On 11/23/22 – a Wednesday – we were in the middle of a scheduled blackout … Continue reading →

So it occurred to me that it might be good to write down what things are like as the winter begins. [We’d already had snow, and by the end of November it was clear that it would be an atypical … Continue reading →

I was not surprised to see the date of my last entry here. The intervening two years have been a bit like being in a food processor – rather choppy – and catching up would definitely be jumbled. At the … Continue reading →