Introduction

i recommend rasputon, faith power and the twilight of the czars by douglas smith. As i wrote this episode, i was propped up in bed in between kidney stone procedures. The next one is scheduled for this coming friday, april sixteenth. After which we almost immediately hop on a plane and fly home on sunday, april eighteenth. So there will be an episode that day, on sunday april eighteenth, but it will have nothing to do with the russian revolution. Instead, it'll be a little stand alone reflection called the streets of paris,. A few episodic slices of life from living here between 20 18 and 20 21