Compassionate linguistics is the desire to learn another’s language out of a sense of empathy, support, and mutual respect. I came up...

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...

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...

In the early morning hours of February 24, 2022, Neringa Petrauskaitė was woken by the alarm on her iPhone. Like many young Lithuanian...

Svetlana is a professional, a wife, and a mother. She chose to remain in Ukraine after Russia invaded Ukraine and started its brutal war...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

In 1939 Nazi Germany invaded the Lithuanian city of Klaipėda and occupied the Baltic Sea coast region. In June 1940 the Soviet Union...

Lithuanian actress Birutė Mar has perfected the genre of the solo performance. In her play, Poetė (The Poet), which premiered April 20,...

This journey began in 2016 with the passing of my great aunt, my grandmother's sister, Elena Čiurlytė Barnet (1923 - 2016). When my...

Translation is a road between cultures. Today I had the great honor of meeting Master Jin Mok, Kouksundo Master, and son of Kouksundo...

Birute Galdikas has dedicated fifty years to working in the field in Borneo, observing orangutans in their natural habitat. Today this...

This morning, my mother, Aldona Simutytė Sruoginienė, sent a photo of our close friend, Nijolė Bražėnaitė Lukšienė Paronetto, holding her...

As I was driving to the homestead of the anti-Soviet resistance fighter and writer, Juozas Lukša, to attend his 100-year anniversary...