Crossing the border into Poland, I turned off my air raid app. 
A small gesture, yet it brought relief after weeks in Ukraine, where tension lives in the air. I am glad to not hear air raids or warning pings on my phone. This trip, I found myself saying mantras, in cars, beside memorials to fallen [...]

Catching up again.Another glaring impact of war is the number of amputees. You see people with artificial limbs everywhere.We had an amazing visit with the PROTEZ FOUNDATION in Kyiv, This organization provides prosthetics for lost limbs. We visited the first clinic in Mukachavo two years ago. It is run by two brothers, one in Ukraine and [...]

Last evening we had dinner with a young couple, maybe in their thirties, dear friends of Anastasia, our Ukrainian friend from Helena. They are both artists, graphic designers, creative souls. Their normal is quite different. They live in a Kyiv neighborhood that is hit frequently. From their apartment on the 13th floor of a 25-story building, [...]