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PLEASE COME VISIT! Thank you! Tags: This just in... Posted by Michelle Knisley at 14:28 | Permanent Link | Comments (3) September 27, 2006 Blog News I feel I am outgrowing blog.com and so I am in the process of changing blogsites. Please check back. In a few days, I will post my new blog address....... Tags: This just in... Posted by Michelle Knisley at 14:29 | Permanent Link | Comments (2) September 26, 2006 blog block, blog vortexs and blogless.... I have been too busy the past few days to post anything. It's probably just as well because when I logged on and noticed that the fields were gone for my profile so I couldn't post my daily verse and I logged on to find a "my space" kinda thing happening instead, well, I'm NOT HAPPY! I have been thinking about changing to blogger for some time because blog.com changes constantly and I wanted to increase my bandwidth and couldn't even do that because their system doesn't take credit cards. Okay, I'm venting on my blog, but it's my blog to vent on. Anyway, time to make ANOTHER major decision in my life. To blog on blog.com or to change the blog, hence the address, etc.............Stay tuned!!!! Tags: Journal entries Posted by Michelle Knisley at 12:34 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) September 21, 2006 Fall Fall has arrived in Ukraine. Earlier this week I traveled to Zhitomir, a city to the west of Kiev, and noticed that the trees were starting to change color and the landscape had that tinge of "fallness" color to it. Growing up in California, I have had to adjust to how the seasons change in Ukraine. While there are changes of season in California weather, they are subtle at the best. Here, sometimes overnight, freezing winter can turn into a wet spring or a humid summer into a gorgeous fall. While I sometimes mourn a change of season for a moment or lament in my head about having to drag out my fall and winter clothes out of storage, I know that the end of an old season makes way for a new one. Sometimes we have to let go of the old things in our lives to make room for the new. Entering a new season is a gift from God whether it is a weather season or a season of our lives. "God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end." Eccesiastes 3:11 (NLT) Tags: Journal entries Posted by Michelle Knisley at 12:22 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) September 16, 2006 There's no Major League baseball or Tommy Lasorda in Ukraine There's definitely no Major League baseball in Ukraine and as far as I know, I don't think Tommy Lasorda has ever been here either. I do know that Pope John Paul II did come and visit. (You can see a bust of him in the center of the photo above.) Since I have been living in Ukraine, I have been pretty much ignoring Dodger baseball. There's a long story to that which has to do with a baseball strike, Orel Hershiser, Pizza Hut and Fox TV. I will spare you the details but since the Dodgers ARE in the thick of a pennant race and it's been sooooooo long, well, let's just say the blood is pumping blue again! Seeing this photo of Tommy Lasorda chowing down on some serious Italian food at his blog, www.tommy.mlblogs.com, made me a bit homesick for the pennant race days of the 70's and 80's. The cold war was on, the Soviet Union was still intact, and I was still in school! Things have changed in my life and in the world since then, but I will always be a Dodger fan, so I am warning you that my blog postings may veer suddenly as I track my beloved team from the former Soviet Union. I won't be eating any Dodger Dogs, but I can make a mean dish of lasagna from scratch. So Tommy if you ever find yourself in Kiev, consider this your outstanding invitation for an Italian meal made by a displaced Dodger fan! P.S. Cap, you can comment all you want Tags: Dodger baseball Posted by Michelle Knisley at 14:26 | Permanent Link | Comments (5) Ukraine or U crane? Some people have started to call Ukraine "U crane" because so many temporary cranes are popping up all over the city. Many areas of Kiev are being gutted and rebuilt or older buildings are just being given major face lifts. At one point this last year I could see as many as five cranes from my balcony alone. Tags: Kiev photos Posted by Michelle Knisley at 14:07 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) September 15, 2006 The Orthodox Church is the largest church in Ukraine. Recently, the Orthodox church has started teaching Christian "ethics" in the public school system. Kyiv Post features an interview with the Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It is very revealing and interesting. You can read this article HERE. Tags: This just in... Posted by Michelle Knisley at 11:45 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) September 12, 2006 St. Michael's church in Kiev, Ukraine Tags: Kiev photos Posted by Michelle Knisley at 17:15 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) September 11, 2006 9/11 Remembering those who died on 9/11....... For those of us who are left behind and wonder at the horror of that day....... Choose Life Choose faith Choose forgiveness Choose love The small choices in our lives affect and influence our bigger decisions and can affect many other people. Choose to do something positive with your life. Tags: Remember Posted by Michelle Knisley at 20:01 | Permanent Link | Comments (1) September 09, 2006 Today as I was dashing across the street in front of my market, I swung around a car that was parked and a man pulled the head of a cow out of his trunk! He was holding it by a horn and it was just this whole cow's head staring at me! 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