My husband's leave is coming to an end. Tomorrow, we're driving back home to Kyiv. My daughter asks me, “Why are you going back? Your home is here. You were born here and spent most of your life here.”

Hello, guys! What are you up to? I just exceeded my daily upload limit in this post. I guess this is something new, maybe recently introduced. So these are not all the pictures I was going to share 🙂

Hello again, friends and strangers. I am visiting my hometown again, trying to escape the round-the-clock Russian attacks, the wailing sirens, and the lack of electricity and water. But on the day I arrived,

Today I will continue sharing about my little walks and discoveries during my short recent trip.

Hello, friends and strangers. Today I am sharing the second part of the photo stories from my recent trip to the city where I was born and spent most of my life, until I met my current husband and moved

There are only overnight trains running between Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk, my hometown. The journey takes at least 9 hours. Sometimes up to 12 hrs. Recently, however, an extra day train was added, and I

The day has finally come. A long-awaited trip to the west of Ukraine, to relative safety. I went to visit my family and, at long last, get a good night's sleep. Kyiv has been under almost continuous attack

It is often said that the "4 Blocks" in Kyiv’s Podil district are a textbook classic — one of the finest examples of socialist postmodernism in Ukraine. These residential buildings were designed

Hello, friends and strangers. It feels like I haven’t written anything in an eternity. Not because I had nothing to say. Quite the opposite, in fact. Time and again, I’ve wanted to write about what hurts

It has been a month since I lost my job. This week, I received my final payment. It wasn’t unemployment benefit, but rather my salary for the half of last month. So, what do my days look like now, when

It has been a while since I last posted. I’ve been following this community for ages. I’ve even almost written a post a few times. Today, I’ve finally plucked up the courage, and I’m sharing some news

This war will end someday. And when I look back on these long years, I will remember not only the bad, but also the good. One could say that we were born in difficult times and that we were unlucky with

Just a sunny frosty day. Just snow. How little it takes sometimes to make you want to live again. Hello there! It has been a while, I know. Also, I am aware it's not Wednesday yet (or already?) I don't

Autumn in Kyiv is usually a bit of a dreary affair. Honestly, if the weather forecast promises a sunny day, you can bet your bottom dollar it'll be cloudy. And if they promise a non-rainy cloudy day? It's

Hello there! It's been a long time since I posted last. Almost 2 months. Posting is always about sharing something. Thoughts, feelings, memories, photos. And always – energy. For these two months, I’ve

Happy Friday, dear fungi lovers! I must confess I am not into picking mushrooms. But I am a big lover of mountains. Not kind of hiker who, you know, spends the night in a tent and tries to cover the longest

Sunday night. The 2 weeks of long awaited vacation are over. And tomorrow I will get back to work and earning money. But the memories will be always with me. In the fourth year of full-scale war, I learned

I thought it might be a good idea to write a post just to avoid making my friends worry about me. I am alive, staying in Kyiv, and this fact sometimes surprises me. Earlier, in June, I went to visit my

Hello, dear readers! This is my third (and last) post dedicated to Peniscola, a charming Spanish town on the Mediterranean coast. The previous posts are here and here. We will wander together along narrow

Despite all the negative consequences for humanity, COVID has given us a great concept of remote work. Often, this option has become the rule or a fallback. For Ukraine, in times of a full-scale Russian