The one who controls the past controls the future and the one who controls the present controls the past, and we all who don't control the present don't control anything.
2 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
We have a house in Burbank. It’s not large – only three-bedroom, and it looks even smaller compared to the territory of the entire property. On its territory, we have two large Christmas trees, eucalyptus tree, orange, apple, tangerine and persimm...
1 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Kurt was a huge, comfortable man, whose body dropped fast into any inviting spaces. However, the word “comfortable” was his attempt at irony. If no one saw him, and the door was shut, he sat in front of a TV. Life was good. He was safe. Video game...
29 Feb 2020 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
What comes to mind is the shooting of John Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX. I am not a political person, but I heard many theories attempting to explain this. The theory that seems me the most probable is the t...
26 Feb 2020 1 minute read 5 comments mgaft1
When writing a story the hardest part for me is a character's back story. Why? Because I am not an insider to American or, in the grand scheme of things, to the Western culture. When I was growing up, from an early age I was spoonfed with the ideals...
10 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
That topic brought to memory Pushkin's story "Барышня-Крестьянка" that I can perhaps translate as Lady-Pesant. It is a story takes us back to the beginning of the 19th century. At that time 90% of the Russian population were serfs, which is, omitting...
6 Feb 2020 2 minute read 1 comment mgaft1
The multistory building where I currently reside has many security gates: to the building, to the living quarters, etc. Every time people go through those gates they have to put their fingers into a finger recognition panel. Usually, this works like...
5 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Ok, boys and girls. I am going to talk about not so pleasant things, but remember you asked for it. It happened long ago when I was studying at UCSD. In the middle of the term, I got very sick with the flu, missed about two weeks of classes and wh...
5 Feb 2020 1 minute read 1 comment mgaft1
She was looking, first to the right, then to the left - just like her forefathers had taught her. For Tsypa the lessons of forefathers weren’t a rhetorical statement. In fact, she personally knew her ancestors. Well, at least, some of them. Those who...
30 Jan 2020 1 minute read 3 comments mgaft1
Hi everybody, Yesterday I made a beet soup called borscht. Now I and my son can eat it for a couple of days. Here's how I made it: First, you boil beef, preferably with the bone. Once you have the broth, you take the meat out and let it cool down....
5 Jan 2020 1 minute read 1 comment mgaft1
Hi, there friends! Here is another small island in Carebian that also starts from the letter "A" Antigua Here is a smaller scale map to understand where exactly it is... All the stamps here are from cartoons.
