The Ten Courageous Women of Shiraz
Forty years ago, on June 18, 1983, ten innocent Bahai women were hanged in Iran for not renouncing their faith. Today, their courage is...
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I see a blog as a type of open dialogue, or open diary, that a writer shares with her reader. Please forgive me if I do not post as regularly as I should, but I will do my best to keep you updated on my life, my thoughts, my projects.
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Laima Vince
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Laima Vince
- Nov 1, 2022
- 2 min
Salem Satanists and Ukraine
Having taught Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" many times in Literature classes, it seemed a shame I'd never visited Salem, Massachusetts,...
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Laima Vince
- May 25, 2022
- 24 min
Compassionate Linguistics: Learning Ukrainian as Resistance to Russia’s War
Compassionate linguistics is the desire to learn another’s language out of a sense of empathy, support, and mutual respect. I came up...
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Laima Vince
- May 3, 2022
- 7 min
Safe Place: An Interview with Ukrainian Poet Yuliya Musakovska from Lviv, Ukraine by Laima Vince
Artwork by Alyona Zhuk SAFE PLACE Are you in a safe place? — This sounds like a prayer, repeated over and over since February 24, 2022 to...
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Laima Vince
- Apr 15, 2022
- 9 min
The "Good Russian"
Sandra had written to me a few days ago that there was a missile struck in her town. I called her this morning to ask how she was doing...
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Laima Vince
- Apr 13, 2022
- 14 min
Support Ukraine: A Lithuanian Grassroots Humanitarian Aid Organization
In the early morning hours of February 24, 2022, Neringa PetrauskaitÄ— was woken by the alarm on her iPhone. Like many young Lithuanian...
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Laima Vince
- Apr 12, 2022
- 8 min
Sofia had three daughters: Hope, Faith, and Love…
Svetlana is a professional, a wife, and a mother. She chose to remain in Ukraine after Russia invaded Ukraine and started its brutal war...
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Laima Vince
- Apr 3, 2022
- 9 min
Checking In
Two weeks ago, I’d spoken with Katya from Mykolaiv, who now lives in Norway. I called again today to check in and see how things were...
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Laima Vince
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
This is What Pain Feels Like
From the diary of a 16-year-old girl named Katya, Mariupol, Ukraine We all lived together in one cellar. In that cellar we all went to...
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Laima Vince
- Mar 26, 2022
- 13 min
A War of Mentalities
Today I spoke for two hours with Sandra, a young woman in her early twenties, who is a doctoral student in Economics at Taras Shevchenko...
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Laima Vince
- Mar 24, 2022
- 7 min
To Leave or to Stay?
On Wednesday, March 23rd, the Russians bombed Kyiv yet again. I was worried about Alina, whom I’d just spoken to on Tuesday, and who had...
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Laima Vince
- Mar 23, 2022
- 10 min
The Past Meets with the Future: Russia’s Barbaric War Against Ukraine
As I spoke with Alina in central Kyiv on the evening of March 23rd, her husband kept an eye on the skies and his ears open for Russian...
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Laima Vince
- Mar 19, 2022
- 5 min
Escaping Russian Terror in Ukraine
Millions of Ukrainian women and children have been forced to flee their homes. This is just one story out of many untold tales... A woman...
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Laima Vince
- Mar 17, 2022
- 5 min
Goodwill on the Border with Poland
Today I spoke with Nadya, a 47-year-old woman who lives in the border town of Sokol, Ukraine. With a population of roughly 20,000,...
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Laima Vince
- Mar 17, 2022
- 3 min
Open Your Eyes, Clear the Skies...
I spoke on the phone today with Ana in Ukraine’s fourth largest city, Dnipro, as she was preparing to hide with her four-year-old son in...
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Laima Vince
- Feb 24, 2022
- 4 min
Children of the Ice: A Solo Performance by BirutÄ— Mar
In 1939 Nazi Germany invaded the Lithuanian city of KlaipÄ—da and occupied the Baltic Sea coast region. In June 1940 the Soviet Union...
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Laima Vince
- Feb 17, 2022
- 3 min
The Poet: The Life of SalomÄ—ja NÄ—ris (1904-1945) Expressed Through her Diary and Poems -- A Play
Lithuanian actress BirutÄ— Mar has perfected the genre of the solo performance. In her play, PoetÄ— (The Poet), which premiered April 20,...
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Laima Vince
- Oct 27, 2021
- 5 min
Finding my great-great grandparents' grave, Jutkonys, Lithuania...
This journey began in 2016 with the passing of my great aunt, my grandmother's sister, Elena ÄŒiurlytÄ— Barnet (1923 - 2016). When my...
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Laima Vince
- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
Translating Master Jin Mok's book on Kouksundo into English
Translation is a road between cultures. Today I had the great honor of meeting Master Jin Mok, Kouksundo Master, and son of Kouksundo...
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Laima Vince
- Oct 21, 2021
- 2 min
BirutÄ— Galdikas: "Without a spiritual attitude, the research you do simply does not work."
Birute Galdikas has dedicated fifty years to working in the field in Borneo, observing orangutans in their natural habitat. Today this...
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