thoughts &
notes

Time has come for me to shut this now-dusty site down. But before I do, I'll leave with a few words of thanks and departing thoughts. I...

It's been two months, and so I'm a month overdue. It's also not quite what I was hoping to deliver back in May, but as most of you know,...

This is late, I know. Life gets in the way; projects like my regular updates get sidetracked. Even a state of war becomes normal....

After a year of picking my own subjects related to Ukraine and the war, or just my own meandering experiences, it's a good time to answer...

Putin never saw NATO as an invasion threat to Russia, but has always seen liberal democracies like the US and EU as an overwhelming...

Some Americans have voiced concern about the billions of dollars in weapons going to Ukraine, but their beef isn't really about the...

I haven't written in a while, but will start back up in January. But there are videos for now... I haven't written or posted anything in...

In October, I was out of Ukraine for a number of reasons, and so I took the opportunity to visit with a handful of our neighbours. Here...

On Instagram and Facebook last week, I posted a pretty testy response to minority leader Representative McCarthy regarding his comments...