Posts from ‘June, 2006’

Some people would call this a safety net, some a trap, and some merely are stingy. I personally despise these nasty things called marriage contracts.
So, let’s talk about them. Apparently, they are very common in this day and age. People use them to make sure that they are not going to have to give away [...]

When I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, Walter Cronkite always talked about the “Cold War”, the Communists, the East Germans and the Soviet Union. They were all our enemies. Our military trained almost exclusively for conventional, nuclear and biological war with the Soviet Union. I served in the US Army from 1985 - [...]

Grass has a couple different meanings to us Americans. There is that fine grass called Acapulco Gold that you smoke and grass that grows in your front/back yards. Well, unfortunately for some, we’re not going to talk about any Acapulco Gold and what we like to munch on when we smoke it.
But why on God’s [...]

Ah yes, you’ve been wondering when I’ll hit on actually dating a Russian woman. Well, here is the first of many articles to come.
Once you marry a Russian woman, you meet your wife’s Russian friends and their husbands. The first question you always ask is “How did you meet your wife?”
This can open a very [...]

As an American man, I’d have to say that Russian TV is refreshing, well the commercials are anyway. During my last trip to Russia, I sat down and watched some TV. It wasn’t really by choice, but Lena’s parents seemed to have it on almost all of the time. Of course I could not understand [...]