What was Christmastime like in Victorian London?
Archives for January, 2011
Travel as a Political Act, Rick Steves Iran
Just the title Travel as a Political Act by Rick Steves itself was enough to make me curious. Not only am I a polyglot, but I’m also a globetrotter with a passion for discovering new places. Some of my travel also spans the political and social realm as I want to understand and see how [...]
a love poem
stark whimsy and those intense unintelligible blue orbs that casual sideways that turns frontways to glance [what was that, a spark?] into these pale shifting [deeply, oh deeply... ]longingly please, please deeply [] fronts of my nervous soul [shared, surely more than one is bewitched] for a whisper a touch [can hope be encouraged?] stark whimsy [...]
Night Life
NIGHT LIFE Love potions splash on ice. Music plays magic melodies for sleepwalkers who dance in a trance. I stand like a shadow behind the bar, polishing glasses, waiting for the next drink order. I watch Solo drift away from her partner and dance on her own – something she does each night at the [...]
Is Russian still a colonial language? Да. Yes.
Although I knew that the Russian Empire and Soviet regime spread the Russian language to the countries that were once part of the Russian empire and Soviet Union, I only recently truly felt the impact of Russian being a colonial or imperial language. Lenin and the Russian language are everywhere in Kyrgyzstan, even in kindergarten [...]
