Tag: Ukraine
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SSP26 – Areta Kovalska
If you’re on Facebook and part of the Ukrainian diaspora, you’ve no doubt come across a page called Forgotten Galicia. That account, and its primary website, ForgottenGalicia.com, is run by Areta Kovalska, my guest on today’s episode. A US expat living in Lviv, Ukraine, Areta had arrived roughly around the same time I was in…
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SSP19 – Running Coach Liubov Lomonosova
Recorded on Monday, November 16, 2020. Today’s guest is a running coach, personal trainer and performance enhancement specialist, Liubov got in touch through a mutual friend and wanted to share her story with how she moved to the US and changed her life for the better by doing something so simple: running. We exchanged emails…
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My family in the Ukrainian news
So you might recall that last year I spent some time on my Uncle’s farm again helping out around there. I neglected to write about it because my life was kinda flying by in an uncontrollable spiral at the time and didn’t really want to bother thinking about it too much, nor make it “happy…
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Ukraine: What’s Going On?
Although I don’t consider myself particularly interested in politics, the current mess in Ukraine is hard to miss. It seems that the powers that be, aren’t, and the powers that want to be, aren’t. And that leaves a whole bunch of people pissed off about their future. The basic premise is that Ukraine wants to…
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Back to Canada and on to… Australia?
Well, I’ll admit I’ve been a bit of a hermit while in Canada. After travelling so much and so far, coming back to Winnipeg was both exciting and depressing all at once. Let’s face it, the city’s kinda isolated from the rest of the world. Though I love Winnipeg and it is my hometown, I…