2016

• Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people 11/20

• Don't forget the milk 07/26

• Snail extract 07/11

• Russia's window to the West 06/22

• My life as a five-minute suburban spy 06/09

• Me and Markov 06/03

• This, too, shall pass 04/19

• We attempt War and Peace 04/05

• New site 04/01

• Reading Daniil Kharms 03/30

2015

• JJ Abrams opens the box of my childhood 12/28

• Diaper by diaper and bottle by bottle 10/07

• We are not getting the full story about the choices we make 09/02

• A Review of the Recent Impressionist Exhibit at the Philadelphia Art Museum 08/20

• How to think in two languages 08/07

• Where I end and where she begins 07/30

• How to become an American Jew 07/16

• Russian Mom July 2015 06/29

• Early parenthood in paintings 06/15

• Reddit was amazing 06/11

• The pictures I’m not taking 06/01

• It is hard to talk to my baby in Russian 05/28

• The one about Friends 03/27

• No, I will not enjoy every moment 03/25

• My favorite books of 2014 01/05

2014

• Waiting to exhale 12/31

• Pushing to production 12/15

• This is six years 10/02

• Just make the damn meal 09/25

• If you love books, leave Amazon alone 09/15

• The first rule of Russian club is you don’t use last names 09/11

• Don’t trust Pinterest pregnancies 09/03

• Why does American radio suck so much? 07/30

• Don’t pageclick on this 07/29

• I can never go back to real life 07/21

• Purim in Moscow 06/25

• I’m tired of apps 06/18

• Hallmark holidays are not my forte 06/09

• Friday Links 05/30

• The American dream as seen through Polly Pocket 05/05

• The show-me state of self-promotion in realtime 04/29

• In Miami and in Vapiano 04/23

• Why it’s important to learn how to speak tech 04/10

• The best books are conversations 04/02

• Use cases 03/21

• Interview with the only person on the planet who hated The Goldfinch 03/17

• The crapshoot of writing for money 03/05

• Minor diva 02/24

• You really shouldn’t have 02/17

• That movie about Joaquin Phoenix’s mustache 02/10

• On #sochiproblems as I see them 02/07

• The snarling crowd in the shadows watching us 01/28

• How I’ve been avoiding writing: I got a typewriter 01/25

• The two types of cold 01/22

• Friday Links 01/17

• The worst-kept resolutions 01/02

2013

• The year of free will-y 12/23

• My favorite books of 2013 12/17

• The river of our past is drying up 12/13

• Friday Links 12/06

• Why I suck at small talk 12/05

• Friday Links 11/15

• Venn diagrams that make yuppies sad 11/13

• Philly still ugly, my research shows 11/12

• Friday Links 11/08

• Pinterest is ruining America, and by America I mean Thanksgiving 11/04

• What we’re sharing during conferences 10/29

• Boy, European movies sure are depressing 10/22

• The state of the Jewnion 10/03

• Women in meth 09/23

• Friday Links 09/13

• Putin’s letter to the NYT 09/11

• Listicle of small things that make me extremely happy 09/10

• MBA Venn Diagram 09/08

• Friday Links 09/06

• Keep going 09/06

• Russian Jewish Romance 09/05

• I suck at socialism 09/04

• Friday Links 08/30

• My thinkpiece on Miley Cyrus 08/28

• Good thing I did all this stuff all summer so I can do nothing in the fall 08/25

• Friday Links 08/16

• What I’ve been reading lately 08/13

• Facebookthink 08/12

• Links! 08/09

• What are the first-worldiest phrases in the NYT motherhood article? 08/07

• On the Amalfi Coast 08/06

• Then and now 08/05

• August Friday Links 08/02

• Cooking 100 stir-frys 07/30

• Friday Links 07/26

• How to get new ideas 07/15

• Bye-aitus 07/01

• Friday Links 06/28

• Michael Chabon and Prague Tricked Me 06/27

• Friday Links 06/21

• The first in a series of blog posts about how Italy lied to me 06/17

• Friday Links 06/14

• Being American 06/13

• I am calling bullshit on Italian breakfast 05/27

• Thursday Video Links 05/23

• Summer is looking too ambitious 05/21

• Late Friday Links 05/17

• La dolce Vika 05/15

• The laME generation 05/13

• Here’s a bunch of stuff I wrote about Russia and World War 2 05/09

• I make a huge writing mistake 05/07

• Happy May! Friday Links 05/03

• The world is so huge in May 05/01

• What people talk about in the spring 04/26

• Ask and ye shall receive 04/23

• Small data 04/22

• Better late than never Friday links 04/19

• A case study in real beauty 04/18

• Gif posts only from now on 04/09

• How to be full-on Jewish half of the time 04/05

• I’m so excited about our authentic Roman holiday 04/01

• Friday is back! 03/29

• Freedom 03/28

• Still alive. 03/26

• Songs about normal life 03/18

• Daylight Savings Time 03/13

• Markets of Britain Friday links 03/08

• The banality of evil on Facebook 03/07

• Well, that’s the last time I’m going to be tricked by a salad bowl 03/05

• BOOM. 03/03

• I hate writing my novel 02/18

• Friday Links is a bucket of sloths! 02/15

• Writing with others 02/13

• How do you people drink coffee? 02/12

• I could be the one to show you Friday Links 02/08

• Women in combat in the American armed forces 02/07

• What we think about in the modern age 02/06

• Gender-neutral language is stupid 02/05

• I’m not making any of this up 02/01

• I’ll teach you how to flow the Friday Links 02/01

• Alone in the Siberian wilderness 01/31

• You can’t understand a man until you cruise a mile in his Beemer 01/29

• There are only 8 movies my husband and I can watch together 01/27

• This is what happens when you Friday Links 01/18

• Did you know there are millennials who are normal people? 01/15

• January is the worst 01/14

• Who wore it better? 01/11

• I did not live until Friday Links 01/11

• Our own personal telescopes 01/07

• New Year, New Links 01/04

• Gerard Depardieu, free agent 01/03

• Ottawa is for Real Russians 01/02

2012

• Chico y Rita 12/25

• Our religion is really just our parents 12/24

• High-class Vegas Friday Links 12/21

• Nassim Taleb 12/20

• I’m a book hoarder 12/19

• How to watch internet news 12/18

• Halloween in the city of good and evil 12/16

• Bubele please. 12/13

• My favorite pictures of menorahs from Instagram 12/13

• Pocahontas at 26 versus 9 12/13

• Basketball in Afghanistan and more truth bombs 12/07

• Monday Links? 12/03

• Pinteresting 12/03

• Still alive. 11/27

• Post-Rockets, Post-Thanksgiving 11/23

• The tragedy of the human brain 11/20

• Friday Links are like your little piece of NPR in an MTV world 11/16

• Why do Eastern European women love leather and fur? 11/15

• His dad was Baryshnikov, the movie was pure nostalgia in a bottle 11/12

• Sita Sings the Blues Links 11/09

• I’m so happy for Ben Affleck 11/09

• Weekends are for anxiety 11/08

• Regional Vice Presidents of the Underworld 11/07

• It’s November! 11/02

• Marie Laveau and Kirk’s magic voodoo fingers help us fight Sandy 10/31

• Friday Links have moved! 10/26

• Friday Links Halloweeny 10/26

• Mr. B and I plant a tree 10/23

• Prayer 10/22

• Friday Links 10/19

• Books: Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down 10/17

• 10 books every MBA student should read 10/16

• The edge of glory 10/15

• Friday Links 10/12

• How the other half eats 10/09

• Friday Links 10/05

• A form of modern magic 10/04

• Halfway 10/01

• Friday Links 09/28

• Hipstagram again 09/25

• Friday Links 09/21

• The Confession 09/19

• I’m in a book! 09/18

• Friday Links 09/14

• God tested me at the Russian store and I failed 09/12

• I love old stuff 09/10

• The first day of school in Russia 09/06

• The art of the slog 09/04

• Friday Links 08/31

• I don’t read my Economists 08/28

• My first and last massage 08/27

• Friday Links 08/24

• Judging a book by its cover 08/23

• Going Paleo 08/21

• Our Father in Heaven, in the Kremlin 08/19

• Don’t Share This 08/15

• Friday Links 08/10

• Older, wiser, but I’m still hate-reading books 08/08

• Love and Time 08/06

• Friday Links 08/03

• I have no girl skills 08/02

• Two goals for my birthday month 08/01

• Friday Links 07/27

• “Hey, how’s your novel going?” 07/26

• Baseball the Vicki way 07/25

• Things my husband will not let my buy on Etsy 07/23

• Friday Links 07/20

• Sheryl, Anne-Marie, and Marissa are giving bad advice to young women who desperately need good advice 07/19

• What I’m reading lately 07/17

• Friday Links 07/13

• How to have a classy bachelorette party in Philly 07/12

• Earning the Hebrew accent 07/10

• Friday Links 07/05

• Refusenik 07/05

• It’s always Independence Day in Russia 07/04

• What are White People complaining about today? 07/02

• Friday Links 06/29

• Working Lion and Stay-At-Home Lion 06/27

• Goodbye, Pixar. I loved you. 06/25

• Friday Links 06/22

• Heat hallucinations. And then, a Scottish miracle. 06/20

• So I found this smartphone with Instagram on it… 06/19

• A letter of concern to my neighbors 06/18

• Friday Links 06/15

• Why do I do this to myself? 06/13

• How a real show about nothing would go 06/12

• The recession is over 06/11

• Seattle and Portland 06/05

• Friday Links 06/01

• Mr. B and I are prepared for anything. Anything being either pogroms or the Siege of Leningrad. 05/30

• Footnote, Late Marriage, and Indie Movie Theaters 05/21

• Friday Links 05/18

• My favorite Hipstergram pictures 05/10

• I basically just paid myself eight cents an hour to learn that I don’t need an MBA 05/09

• Friday Links 05/04

• A book review that is also a plea for mercy 05/02

• New York on a whim 04/30

• How writers lie (or, eel-hunting) 04/27

• Philly’s Women in Tech Summit at Wharton: Better than expected! 04/25

• I found another Russian thing that is terrible for everyone: Russian children’s books 04/23

• Friday Links, now engineered to make you appear witty and urbane to others. 04/20

• Remember. And actually do something? 04/19

• How to really test the limits of your marriage 04/17

• OH MY GOD MY SCOTLAND EBOOK IS OUT 04/16

• How a Book Cover Gets Made 04/13

• BRACE YOURSELVES. IT’S ALMOST HERE. 04/12

• Goodbye, Cruel World. I ate the sushi. 04/10

• Hag Sameach 04/06

• When you’re editing a book with a hammer, every sentence looks like a nail 04/04

• Sad Fridge is Sad 04/03

• Friday Links 03/30

• Short Conversations with Mr. B about Lermontov 03/28

• Can anyone recommend a house cleaner who will not murder us? 03/27

• I spent St. Patrick’s Day exercising. Terrible. 03/26

• This man will motivate you today 03/19

• Friday with a Side of Links 03/16

• What I’m “reading” 03/15

• Spoiler alert: I found God. He lives in the sketchiest part of North Philly. 03/13

• You think this guy complained about Mondays? 03/12

• Friday Links 03/09

• This post is about four things: Purim, International Women’s Day, my ebook, and, of course, Braveheart 03/08

• I bet Audrey Hepburn hates everyone 03/07

• White people experiencing first world problems while reading 03/05

• Friday Links 03/02

• On Writing in 2012 03/01

• Leap Years in Iran 02/29

• Why is Philadelphia so disgusting? 02/28

• Still here. Physically. Just not mentally. 02/22

• Friday Links 02/17

• How to Write a Travel Piece 02/16

• Love in the time of Cholera (and other diseases) 02/14

• This Writer’s Blocked 02/13

• Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday 02/07

• War Horse :( 02/06

• Test. Don’t mind me. Just a picture. 02/06

• Friday Links 02/03

• Le Groundhog Day 02/02

• Why do Russians love Ferrero Rocher? 01/31

• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Tax Returns 01/30

• Friday Links 01/27

• The Best Books I Read in 2011 01/25

• The internet is making us stupid (or, I’m better than you because I broke my phone) 01/24

• Random pictures from the UK with snarky commentary that didn’t fit into any other posts 01/22

• Friday Links 01/20

• Scotland the Brave (and loch-y): Glasgow, Glencoe, Loch Ness, and the Highlands 01/19

• Stop SOPA, stop censorship. 01/18

• A glimpse into the Edwardian period 01/16

• Friday Links 01/13

• How I misinterpret Russian song lyrics 01/12

• Scotland the Brave: It’s about to get a little anti-Semitic up in Edinburgh. Also, rainy. 01/10

• My MBA: Paying thousands of dollars to mess around with Photoshop 01/08

• Friday Links 01/06

• Scotland the Brave (but STILL INCREDIBLY rainy): The Lochs and Stirling Castle 01/05

• A Guest Post about Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 01/02

2011

• Happy 2012 to Everyone! 12/30

• Scotland the Brave (and also rainy): Edinburgh 12/28

• Travel is my religion (so is really terrible amateur photography) 12/26

• Things I hate about Europe 12/21

• Jewish Carols 12/19

• People who shop at Whole Foods: you’re communists. Technically speaking. 12/16

• Why we bought the Louis CK special 12/15

• Why don’t women buy men jewelry? Or, more importantly, why I hate Christmas jewelry ads. 12/14

• Golda Meir weighs in on women in tech 12/13

• Like kryptonite was for Superman, the metric system is my greatest weakness 12/09

• Reading nooks I have known and loved (but was too lazy to recreate in my own house) 12/07

• Where is the line between Laziness and Sloth? Because I think I’ve crossed it with two words: online groceries. 12/06

• This post is kind of hipster because I talk about old-school radios and miss them, but I also love my iPad 12/05

• Friday Links 12/01

• New York Times Story Idea Bingo 2011 12/01

• The Internets has changed how we think about people. 11/30

• A Very Russian Family Thanksgiving, complete with Russian movies. 11/27

• I’m getting an MBA. It won’t make me smarter. But it’s a smart move. 11/22

• “What does popravilas mean?” Bad things, little girl. 11/21

• Friday Links 11/18

• We are the 1% (.5% if you don’t count the roof) 11/16

• The Rise of the Schmuck 11/15

• Friday Links 11/10

• Stream of thoughts on heroes and the Art of Fielding at Penn State 11/10

• Book Review: A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian 11/08

• Why Every Woman Should Know How Her Blog Works or,Why Women are still marginalized. 11/07

• Friday Non-Links 11/03

• Friday Links 10/28

• A guide to trolling Jewish organizations featuring my grandfather 10/26

• Things I love and hate about America 10/23

• Another YouTube break 10/19

• Freedom is not free 10/18

• A short story about lazy Jewish consumer behavior and HBO 10/17

• Friday Links 10/14

• Comic: Recent Reads 10/12

• My new enemy: rowers. And motivational speakers. 10/11

• Friday Links 10/07

• Steve Jobs and the Art of Immortality 10/06

• Three years of Boykis 10/03

• House update: the walls 10/02

• Friday Links 09/30

• Movies: The Guard 09/28

• Facebook anxiety 09/26

• Friday Links 09/22

• How We Learned American 09/21

• If my exam were on YouTube, I’d pass with an A+++ 09/19

• What Russian Men Talk About? Surprise! It’s Cheating on Their Wives 09/14

• How to Manage Your Time More Efficiently 09/14

• Math exile 09/12

• Ten Years 09/08

• What do you want to see in a President? 09/07

• My first world problems 09/07

• Anthony Bourdain in Iraq 09/05

• Adele 09/05

• A ship in port is safe 09/05

• Friday Links 09/02

• The Free Dignity Blog Giveaway! 08/31

• Grad school is hard. 08/30

• Book Review: The Magicians by Lev Grossman 08/29

• Friday Links 08/26

• Ways that I did not want to experience adventure in my life 08/24

• Wearing engagement rings to interviews 08/23

• Vicki’s Travel Guide to Boston for the Temporarily Unemployed and Anxious 08/21

• Happy Birthday! 08/18

• I’m Here 08/17

• Friday Links 08/12

• Russian Dolls Premiere Liveblog 08/11

• Reminder! Russian Dolls Tomorrow Night @ 10:30 08/10

• I don’t feel safe in Center City Philly after dark 08/09

• I have to stop blogging because the Russian spirit world is telling me to. 08/08

• Friday Links 08/05

• Mila Kunis Schools a Reporter but Maybe Makes a Grammar Mistake 08/03

• Friday Links Test 08/02

• The great news: I’m getting an iPad! The terrible news: I’m getting an iPad. 08/02

• Our Domovoi. Americans: He’s just a short invisibile bearded dude that lives in your home, no biggie. 08/01

• Blog Redesign! 07/31

• Friday Links 07/29

• The Russian Jersey Shore: No one is ready. 07/27

• Don’t major in history for the love of Charlemagne 07/26

• I Feel Like a Whole Red Square of People is in My Head and Other Personal Branding Problems 07/25

• Friday Links 07/22

• How loud can you scream? Thanks to either nature or nurture, I found out yesterday! 07/21

• How to not be unemployed in a recession 07/19

• Russian Medical Advice, Part Two 07/18

• Friday Links 07/14

• How to make the perfect hot-weather cocktail 07/13

• This Post about How I Guilt-Buy Febreeze On Amazon is Going to be a Goldmine for Marketers 07/12

• We’re Getting Our Backsplash Installed By Russians. Pray for us. 07/11

• Friday Links 07/08

• Book Review: Salt: A World History 07/06

• I Love America: Air Conditioning and Public Utilities for All 07/05

• Friday Links 07/01

• I Almost Died for a $250 Discount on an IKEA Chair 06/29

• This post wast not sponsored by UPenn…yet 06/28

• On Running Shoes and Revenge 06/27

• Friday Links 06/24

• I Apologize in Advance for this Video 06/22

• Life after “Life After Zionist Summer Camp” 06/21

• I hate everyone on Facebook 06/20

• Friday Links 06/17

• Bon Apetit! 06/15

• House Tour 06/13

• Hookah Neuroses 06/13

• Friday Links 06/10

• A Journey 06/09

• Dead Goats, Growing Babies in Pickle Jars, and Yak Polo. 06/08

• Short Notes on Strawberries 06/06

• Friday Links 06/03

• Standby 06/01

• Friday Links 05/27

• Pics from Around the House 05/26

• Our New Routine 05/25

• Losing Erica 05/24

• Friday Links 05/20

• Shoes, sex, fashion, clothes, women, chocolate, ladies, crying, Sex and the City, Facebook, Loboutin, iPhones, eating disorders, makeup 05/18

• Mezuzah SNAFUs 05/17

• A Problem of Tudorian Proportions 05/16

• Friday Links 05/13

• Giving to Charity 05/09

• Friday Links 05/06

• Accidentally Phone Tapped 05/04

• Success! 05/02

• Friday Links 04/29

• Open Thread: What Do You Eat in Your Media Diet? 04/27

• A Guide to Questionable Russian Careers, or “Seryozha, That Guy with the Ambulance.” 04/26

• My Calendar This Week 04/25

• No Friday Links 04/22

• Why picking the right doormat determines the rest of your life 04/21

• At Least Two Conversations about Pigs during Passover 04/20

• Passover the Kleenex, I’m Watching Prince of Egypt 04/18

• Friday Links 04/15

• Whines about commutes and the radio, part two 04/13

• Yuriy’s Flight 04/12

• Our Cherry Blossom Run 04/11

• Friday Links 04/08

• Which Songs Can You Sing to Kids to Prevent Risk of Brain Atrophy (for yourself)? 04/07

• Did You Know that Our Maybe-House Has Evil Spirits? Also, here’s a picture of me eating bread. 04/05

• Manicures for Cheap Jewish Werewolves and Other Ethnic Minorities 04/04

• Friday Links 04/01

• In which I find out the source of 99% of my spam. Also, I eat a dosa. 03/29

• How Much Does it Take to Plan a Vacation? Two (Jewish Moms) and Three (Months). 03/28

• Friday Links 03/25

• A Story about Sam, Izzy, and the Sandbox 03/24

• The world is going crazy, so hopefully reading about my radon problems will cheer you up. 03/23

• Things I Should be Thinking About Right Now 03/21

• Friday Links 03/18

• I’m so excited! I’m so scared! 03/17

• You know it’s spring when a 5-lb box of matzah from Amazon arrives on your doorstep 03/15

• Friday Links 03/11

• The Most Depressing Suggestions for Me Based on Searching for “Matryoshkas” on Amazon 03/09

• Happy International Women’s Day! Now, buy our cute purses. 03/08

• Dambisa Moyo, My Girlcrush, in Philly 03/07

• Friday Links 03/04

• Las Vegas Means Eating, Drinking, and Discussing the Nevada Real Estate Bubble 03/02

• Two Stupid Roads Diverged in A Yellow Wood 02/28

• Friday Links 02/25

• Caption Contest 02/22

• “The destinations are crap, but oh, the journey is wonderful.” 02/22

• At Last 02/17

• Bye-Bye, Jezebel 02/15

• Things I Love 02/14

• Friday Links 02/11

• Why Does Every Russian Woman Shop at TJ Maxx? 02/07

• Friday Links 02/04

• The Internet Tells You Things You Don’t Want to Know 02/03

• WEATHER UPDATE: Winter still wintering, being bleak 02/01

• Movies: The Vanished Empire 01/31

• Friday Links 01/28

• Getting Married and Living Apart is Like Drinking Non-Alcoholic Wine 01/26

• Life is not fair. If it were, I would be having my eggs peeled for me at Downton Abbey right now. 01/24

• Friday Links 01/21

• Classes I wish I had been able to take in college 01/19

• Happiness 01/18

• Friday Links 01/14

• Let’s Navel-Gaze about Our Names! 01/13

• Chinese Mothers and Russian Mothers Go Together Like Mao and Stalin (When they Were Besties, not before they had a falling out) 01/11

• Things That Make Me Happy 01/10

• Friday Links 01/07

• A List of Things That Go Through My Mind During Zumba Class 01/05

• Lists are stupid. But now that I’m on one…nah, still stupid. 01/04

• Movies that Don’t Suck: The King’s Speech 01/03

2010

• 2010 in Blog Posts 12/30

• The Winter Solstice is Over 12/26

• Vicki’s End-of-Year Nondenominational Gift List 12/22

• Save Me, I’ve become One of the Bluetooth People 12/21

• Russian New Year Crib Notes 12/20

• Friday Links 12/17

• Listening to the Glee of the 1840s and Braving Frostbite to Get to It 12/15

• Modern-Day Telepathy 12/14

• This Post is Morbid as Hell 12/13

• Friday Links 12/10

• SKRUG Strikes Again 12/08

• Pictures of December that I Love 12/07

• Car Troubles 12/06

• Friday Links 12/03

• She’s Come Undone (Pillow Talk) 11/30

• The difference between Washington and Philly in two screenshots 11/29

• Friday Links 11/26

• The Worst/Best Thanksgiving Poem Ever 11/24

• I Got 99 Problems but Naming a Puppy Ain’t One (Yet) 11/22

• In Philadelphia traffic, everyone’s an engineer* 11/22

• Friday Links 11/19

• SKRUG 11/18

• Jay-Z on NPR. For realz. 11/17

• Ever Since I Moved To Philly, It’s Like I’m an Adult or Something. 11/15

• Friday Links 11/12

• Something lighter today-We No Speak Americano 11/09

• Kaddish (This is going to be a morose one. Can you tell?) 11/09

• The Back-up plan 11/07

• Friday Links 11/04

• The Princess and the Frog. FINALLY. 11/02

• Za Vashe Zdoroviye-To Your Health 11/01

• Friday Links 10/29

• Two quick pics from this week 10/28

• James Zogby Wins Me Over with his Lebanese Trickery and Charm 10/26

• Bards and a Vanishing Breed of Russian 10/24

• Friday Links 10/21

• Great Falls and the Origins of Shashlik 10/19

• Look what I found by the side of the road in Philadelphia 10/18

• Scenarios 10/17

• City at night 10/15

• Friday Links 10/14

• This is a promise coming from a pessimist 10/13

• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia 10/12

• Dracula drama or something like it 10/10

• Friday Links 10/08

• Russian women journalists put other Russian women journalists to shame 10/07

• Last Photo Moments of D.C. 10/05

• SURPRISE. A writer sees life as a metaphor. 10/04

• Anniversary and Friday Links 09/30

• Please help me look less like Gaga and more like Coco 09/28

• Books: O Jerusalem 09/27

• New Digs 09/26

• Friday Links 09/24

• Sam and Sofia Learn the World Despite My Moral Outrage 09/22

• Big Changes 09/20

• Saturday in Alexandria 09/20

• Friday Slacking 09/17

• Meeting the writer you look up to most is better than Mother Theresa riding a unicorn 09/14

• Blogging with integrity: I hate small talk 09/13

• Friday Links 09/10

• Oops 09/08

• Comparative Dadvantage 09/07

• Friday Links! 09/03

• A heel dilemma 09/01

• Mind currently in: Mongolia 08/31

• World of pain 08/29

• Friday Links 08/27

• I’m Trying to Stop Reading Blogs that Suck 08/25

• Book Review: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart 08/23

• What is it about analyzing 20-somethings? 08/23

• Friday Links 08/20

• I’m reading… 08/19

• Chat with Mr. B 08/17

• My Secret Muscle (not as dirty as it sounds) 08/15

• Friday Links 08/13

• Guy I See Going to Work Every Day 08/11

• Where’s Vicki? 08/10

• Friday Links 08/06

• Birthday Advice 08/05

• A book about why the Middle East is crazy 08/03

• Horace 08/02

• Friday Links 07/30

• Gary Shteyngart kind of acknowledges me on Facebook 07/28

• What were YOU doing instead of getting heat stroke? 07/26

• Friday Links! 07/23

• Book Review: The Debba (with Vicki-suggested cover art!) 07/21

• Tisha B’Are You Serious? You’re fasting again? 07/20

• The City that Doesn’t Sleep, but sure as hell sweats a lot 07/19

• Friday Links 07/16

• My second 5k, this time with helpers 07/15

• Book Review: Stalin’s Romeo Spy 07/13

• Guest Post from Mr. B’s Mom: Office Bathroom Etiquette 07/12

• Friday Links! 07/09

• Expectations of immigrant women in the West 07/07

• Getting back on track 07/06

• Friday Links 07/02

• I make a suggestion for Facebook 07/01

• Mr. B’s mom inspires me to drive Mr. B to dehydration 06/29

• Healthcare and the best of the summer 06/28

• Friday Links 06/25

• I Perform Public Services 06/23

• Did You Know I Was a Chess Queen? 06/22

• This baby will get crazy made fun of in elementary school 06/21

• Friday Links 06/18

• Oh Crap, It’s Bloomsday 06/16

• Blackberry Nights 06/14

• How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire, plus Afghanistan 06/14

• Friday Links 06/11

• In which I run my first 5k 06/10

• I should be blogging… 06/08

• Friday Links 06/04

• If my grandpa can’t come to the pictures, they come to him 06/02

• Welcome, Summer 06/01

• Vicki’s Marriage Advice 05/31

• Friday Links 05/28

• New Sneakers 05/26

• Our Adventures in Los Angeles, starting with Mulholland Drive 05/26

• Update from the home front: my aunt comes from Russia and my mom flies free from logic 05/25

• If you’re interested in if the world economy will ever recover 05/24

• Friday Links 05/21

• I’ve Gone Over to the Dark Side 05/20

• How to get me to give you money. It’s not by sending me your stupid donation email. 05/19

• Organic Strawberry Fields Forever. California, Part 2 05/18

• Our Vacation in the State Where You Never Find a Dance Floor Empty: Part 1 05/16

• Friday Links 05/14

• I’m back! 05/13

• Friday Links 05/07

• Where is the R in BRICS? 05/05

• Help Name that Electronic Device! 05/04

• Around the World on a Shoestring Budget 05/03

• About the May Logo 04/30

• Friday Links 04/30

• Stars on Ice, featuring Cold Hard Ice and Cold Hard Reality 04/27

• Rejoining society soon, with lilacs 04/26

• Friday Links 04/23

• Guest Post: How to Move 04/21

• While we were moving to an undisclosed location near the Pentagon, stuff was happening in the real world. 04/20

• Time Machine (Mashina Vremeni) and My Dad 04/19

• Friday Links 04/16

• Mr. B’s minimalism 04/15

• Welcome to the bardak that is my apartment 04/14

• We, the Russians 04/13

• Friday Links 04/09

• Gabby Sidibe and The Debate on Fat Acceptance 04/08

• Is this an econ talk or a meeting of the XY Chromosome Club? 04/07

• Cherry Blossoms 04/05

• Friday Links! 04/01

• New post loves!! 04/01

• Breakfast at Boykis 03/30

• Life Goes On. 03/30

• Women in Wonderland 03/28

• Friday Links 03/25

• Heavy Metal in Baghdad 03/25

• A Russian fairy tale: Tori and the firebird 03/23

• What do rich Russians and egg incubation have to do with my weekend? Everything. 03/21

• Friday Links 03/18

• On Notice 03/17

• Whoever said life is about adventure and risk-taking never had typhoid shots 03/15

• Comic: New Moon 03/14

• Friday Links! 03/12

• Environmentalism has its roots in millions of violently angry Soviet women 03/11

• Shortie: Steppe and Glamour 03/10

• A conversation with my parents about India 03/08

• Happy International Women’s Day 2010! 03/07

• It’s Friday Links Time! 03/04

• Lenin congratulates me 03/03

• Visiting my grandpa, the Yiddish-speaking atheist 03/02

• Nothing to see here, move along… 03/01

• Purim Friday Links 02/25

• My Friend Jen, the Human Bandaid 02/25

• Russian Tweetup: February 28 02/24

• Why the American Ice Dancing Teams Need to get Tough 02/22

• Nutellaaaaaaa 02/19

• I’m going to fire my editor 02/18

• Why do you have to discover Adriano Celentano, cruel Internet? 02/16

• A few brief thoughts today: shuttle launches, the Olympics, and why Russians are racist 02/15

• Accidental Chicken Tikka Masala. Or, recipe websites are awful. 02/15

• I’m a Giver 02/11

• The History of Tipping…in the Boykis Household 02/10

• Superbowl Commercials 02/09

• I’m still alive from Snowmageddon! 02/07

• The Snowpocalypse Rains Down Calamity and Soviet Russia on DC 02/04

• Parents censor Anne Frank. Miep would be disappointed. 02/02

• Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit 02/01

• What’s worse than being cold? Being cold in Canada. 02/01

• Millions of babies, the Holocaust, and gender segregation. It’s the weekend! 01/31

• This Tu B’Shvat, I’m buying a donkey and a plane ticket to Haifa 01/28

• No Photoshop Thursday today, for a good reason :) 01/28

• My B.S. in Economics is no match for fist pumping 01/27

• This is all I have to say today 01/26

• Who’s taking my advice? That’s right. Hayden Panettiere. 01/24

• Facebook’s algorithm is still off 01/22

• Photoshop Thursday: Thursday! 01/20

• Mrs. Bej and Bellydancing After the Saudi Arabian Embassy 01/19

• Riding a horse is like blogging, except you can’t become a parapalegic if you blog 01/18

• Helping Haiti and MSF 01/18

• Delurker Day-Say Hi! 01/14

• Rory Stewart Walked Through Afghanistan 01/14

• What Can Men Expect of Women Now that We’re Not in the 1950s? 01/13

• The Picture Books of My Youth 01/11

• President of Russia Wishes Me Merry Christmas 01/07

• Pictures: The Girl from Cairo 01/05

• Is it feminism to pose naked with a challah? 01/04

• Book Review: The Visual Miscellaneum 01/04

2009

• Happy 2010! 12/30

• China and Russia Face Each Other on the Banks of the Amur River 12/30

• Letter to my one blog visitor from Shiraz, Iran 12/29

• Best of 2009 12/29

• Pictures: A Florida Sunset 12/28

• Comic: Al Qaeda Difficulties 12/27

• Comic: Merry Mary! 12/24

• Photoshop Thursday: A Garden! 12/24

• Movie Review: Avatar 12/22

• The Empire State of Mind: Life in New York City 12/20

• Movie Review: Gift to Stalin (Подарок Сталину) and Interview with Cast 12/17

• Photoshop Thursday: Yemen! 12/17

• Book Review: Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me 12/15

• Movie Review: 10 Weizman Street plus Comme ton Pere 12/14

• Friday Links: Hebrussian Edition 12/11

• The Climate Change Scandal and the Importance of Good Code 12/10

• Movie Review: Srugim (Knitted) 12/08

• The Clarinet and Muscle Memory 12/06

• Friday Links: Let’s All go to the Movies! 12/04

• Washington DC Jewish Film Festival 12/03

• Photoshop Thursday! Master and Margarita 12/02

• Disney’s The Princess and the Frog and the Economics of Race 12/01

• Dr. Maina Singh and the Indian Jews of Israel 11/30

• The Boykis New Year Tree in Force 11/30

• Comic: Black Friday 11/27

• Comic: The Jews of the Mayflower 11/26

• I am thankful for… 11/25

• China, the US and the Trade Deficit 11/25

• What’s the deal with the Russian New Year Tree? 11/23

• Monday Photo Blues 11/23

• Friday Links for the Doomed 11/19

• Russian LeTziyon: Ayn Rand 11/18

• NaNoWriMo: Day 15 11/17

• The Great Interview Experiment 2009: Otir! 11/16

• Finally Friday! 11/13

• NaNoWriMo: Day 11 11/12

• This is how economists (theoretically) lose weight 11/10

• NaNoWriMo: Day 9 11/10

• NaNoWriMo: Day 8 11/08

• Ringtones in Ramallah or Pelephones in Petach Tikva 11/06

• Pictures from Yaroslavl 11/04

• NaNoWriMo: Day 4 11/04

• NaNoWriMo: Day 3 11/04

• NaNoWriMo: Day 2 11/02

• Autumn Sunsets 11/02

• NaNoWriMo Update! 11/01

• Friday Comic and Friday Links! 10/29

• Asher Kaufman on the Village of Ghajr at the Middle East Institute 10/28

• Guest Post: Halloween and Pippi Longstocking…and Jews 10/27

• Midnight Nutella: A Halloween Post 10/27

• Author Interview: Hannah Friedman 10/26

• Friday Links 10.23.09 10/22

• Writing Humor:Advice from Lewis Carroll 10/22

• Russian LeTziyon: Halloween Costumes 10/20

• Me on Jewlicious: Horrible Russian Israeli murder 10/20

• Russian President Medvedev, it’s like you’re trying to fail on purpose by cutting down on beer 10/19

• Me, Champagne, and Jabotinski on Facebook 10/17

• Bhuvan and Gauri 10/16

• Friday Links 10.16.09 10/16

• Quick Poem in Russian 10/14

• Russian LeTziyon: Aladdin and Jasmine 10/13

• The First Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to a Woman 10/12

• My unborn novel is annoying me (NaNoWriMo) 10/11

• Friday Links and Friday Comic 10/08

• Healthcare for the Stupid and Confused (namely, me) 10/08

• Writing a Novel in a Month and Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon 10/06

• Outsourcing-it’s not that bad: A comic 10/05

• Fed expects unemployment rise into 2010; GDP to fall in 2009 10/05

• Russian LeTziyon: Golda Gives advice 10/01

• Russian LeTziyon 09/29

• Our Trip to Israel-The YouTube 09/28

• Movie Review: Amreeka 09/27

• Poem: Autumn 09/27

• Friday Links 9.25.09 09/25

• Ghaddafi, tents, intense 09/23

• Elsewhere on the webs 09/23

• Sergei Mikhalkov, poet, Soviet anthem writer, dies at 96 09/22

• On being Batman as a girl 09/20

• Friday Links 9.18.09 09/17

• God(s) is straight-up messing with me 09/16

• Indian Classical Dance: Bharatan-what?? 09/14

• The real problem with healthcare: Russian cures. 09/12

• Friday Links 9.11.09 09/11

• The Step-Motherland 09/09

• Guest Post: Now Boarding…..rows Aleph thru Zayin 09/07

• Guest Post: On Being Twenty-Three (And Adopting a New Life Philosophy) 09/04

• Guest Post: Healthcare Reform-Easy as Apple Pie from Scratch 09/03

• Guest Post: Backhanded Compliments 09/02

• Guest Post: Jew Tattoos and Piercings, Too 08/31

• Friday Links 8.28.09 08/28

• Guest Post: Russian Protocol for Safe Travel 08/27

• Leavin’ on a Jet Plane… 08/26

• Me Elsewhere 08/25

• BMWs in song across cultures 08/23

• Friday Links 8.21.09 08/20

• Jews Back in Ukraine: This Can’t be Good 08/19

• Mom’s birthday 08/17

• Guest Post: Jewish dating and Christmas brisket 08/17

• Friday Links 8.14.09 08/13

• Book Review: Create Your Own Economy by Tyler Cowen 08/12

• Jewlicious: HIAS Hero Ruins My Life 08/11

• Pictures from Bangladesh 08/10

• Friday Links 08/07

• Putin’s Pec Pics: HOTT 08/06

• The Victorian Error: Birthday 08/05

• Marriage regulations in Israel and the world 08/03

• Author Interview: Karan Mahajan (Family Planning) 08/02

• Friday Links. 07/31

• The pros of Russian husbands 07/30

• Crossposted on Tech N Marketing 07/29

• Are you fasting on Thursday? 07/28

• Crossposted on Jewlicious 07/28

• Book Review: Chasing the Sea by Tom Bissell 07/26

• Welcome, Visitors from NewEurasia.net! 07/26

• Jon Stewart: Most Trusted American Newscaster 07/23

• Friday Round-up and A Question 07/23

• Author Interview: Emil Draitser 07/21

• Hortex 07/19

• Scenster, Hipster, Hippie 07/19

• Friday Round-Up and Something Cute about Mr. B 07/16

• Book Review: Surviving by Akira and Ellie Ohiso 07/15

• The Failed State Index: 2009 07/15

• Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan 07/12

• The Victorian Error: Lite Jazz 07/12

• Best of the Week 07/10

• Babushkas and Britney Spears 07/10

• Visualizing the National Defecit 07/09

• Prayer Techno Style 07/08

• American vs. Russian dating 07/06

• Heppy Fort ov Dzhuly 07/04

• Nigerian Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 07/03

• Casablanca 07/01

• BRIC-A-BRAC: China messes with national stats 07/01

• The Victorian Error: Rooster 06/29

• Stalin vs. Martians 06/25

• Sands of Saudi 06/23

• The Kids Aren’t Alright 06/23

• Added utility of a second language: Eavesdropping at parties 06/22

• Happy Father’s Day! 06/21

• Life with Landau (Hint: Lots of Extramarital Sex) 06/17

• Book Review: Shush! Growing up Jewish Under Stalin 06/16

• Anna Schwartz Schools Bernanke 06/14

• A Russian in Bollywood 06/12

• Movie Review: Penelope (with Christina Ricci) 06/10

• Soviet Threads 06/08

• Peace in the Middle East in One Video 06/05

• Book Review: Turkmeniscam 06/04

• Ivri Lider in Washington, DC: On Wanting to Be Israeli 06/03

• You Can Never Go Home Again: Reverse Immigration 06/02

• Vicki goes to the World Bank 05/30

• One of these Nutellas is not like the other 05/27

• Learning SAS by Example: First Impressions 05/27

• Memorial Day 05/25

• Economics links roundup for Friday 05/22

• The First DC Jewish Tweetup! 05/22

• Русские грибы-Russian mushrooms 05/18

• Trip to the Newseum 05/17

• The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names 05/16

• Book Review: Sashenka by Simon Montefiore 05/14

• Jews of the DC metro area, Unite! 05/13

• Happy Mother’s Day! 05/10

• May 9: The Day we Pwned the Germans 05/08

• Heart of DeBeers: Conflict Diamonds and Kanye 05/05

• I’m Jewlicious! 05/03

• Women, careers, big cities, and other thoughts 04/30

• Why we all sometimes need a Roman Holiday 04/26

• Voting in India 04/24

• A failure of a Jew: clothes discounts and budgeting 04/22

• יום השועה 04/21

• Quickie Book Review: The Golden Veil by Kim Wilkins 04/21

• I have a love/hate relationship with A.B. Yehoshua 04/20

• Parenting: Perception in the West v. elsewhere 04/14

• Washington: The city is covered in petals 04/12

• Quickie Book Review: Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany 04/07

• Economists and announcing positive news: ur doin’ it wrong 04/02

• The Women of Kabul: A Shakesperean Tragedy 03/26

• A pox on the people that bought subprime mortgages 03/22

• GRE Preparation 03/17

• Uzbek Guest Workers in Russia 03/12

• The Iranian Threat: Isn’t 03/11

• Movie Review: Taken 03/03

• Fabulous Friday: Man up, says Mr. T to jobseekers 02/27

• Empty TEUS: Poetic, haunting empty boxes 02/26

• Shlom bayit (שלום בית)- Maintaining sanity and comparative advantage in the household 02/18

• Turtle quandary and the fight between Hebrew and Yiddish 02/17

• Girl power! Kind of? Women and sex trafficking 02/13

• Because “Breastaraunt” coming from NPR is a funny word 02/10

• The most depressing baby songs ever: Russian ones 02/06

• Statistically significant: XKCD 02/04

• Movie Review: Waltz with Bashir (ואלס עם בשיר) 02/02

• Crying unabashedly during Disney movies 01/30

• Making sense of econbabble: Real vs. nominal values 01/29

• Changing My Last Name: Or, how I totally screwed over feminism 01/27

• Helpful Economics Forum 01/26

• Predictions on the Economy from a Dismal Scientist 01/25

• Less Politics, More Interior Design 01/21