When you're doomed to lead a perpetually exciting life, playwriting is not the best way of attaining peace and balance. This may surprise people who only know Russian drama through painfully earnest...
I was clicking my boot heels (autumn has suddenly decided to make its appearance in formerly heat-struck Moscow - with a maniacal vengeance) down the broken pavement, splashing through the puddles,...
I always love when things I've written turn back up in my Internet "social circle"--mentioned in a blog I read, reblogged on Tumblr weeks or even months later, forwarded on Twitter by someone I...
By the time my birthday rolled around this year, I was away from Moscow for a while - taking care of family business, mostly. Because the situation surrounding the health of a relative in Kiev was...
The internet recently went into an all-out furor over a segment of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's radio program, in which she used the N word repeatedly, while telling a Black woman who had called for...
The train was departing at 11: 23 p.m. At 11:06 p.m., I had just bounded out of my building, and was standing on the side of the road, hand outstretched. A small sedan heeded my desperate call. "Can...
“Girls Gone Wild” goes to various campuses and bars where women are partying and encourages them to reveal their bodies and perform for the cameras. In most of the filmed scenes, these women are...
Welcome to the re-launching of Natalia's column. It will run every other Sunday, and will now be more personal, for we have decreed that it will be so. Forever and ever - or until she gets bored with...
The modern world is filled with scientific innovations that have advanced the quality and longevity of life. There was a time when women who were infertile had two options: adoption or nursing an...
Saturday June 26th, as dignitaries were arriving in Toronto Canada for the G8/G20, the streets of the downtown core were erupting in a violent protest. At first it was a fairly passive display, with...
