Brent Antonson spent years living abroad including extended stints teaching English at universities and schools in Russia, Iraq and China. He’s travelled widely including driving all 50 American states. With his younger brother and their father, they circumnavigated the Northern Hemisphere by train over five journeys including in countries like Belarus, Mongolia and North Korea. And his "Ties That Binds" is being considered for publication. Brent is from Vancouver, Canada (49.15'N 123.6'W).
I have a concussion. In fact, I’ve had five or six of them. And what they’ve done to my life is irreparable. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) where the brain makes contact with the skull.
Read PostIt is unlikely we ever would have known the Russian imprisonment atrocities that occurred in the gulags without their narratives. Through them, we mark the history and ongoing dangers of the Soviet authoritarian regime—today writ large by Russia’s behavior in Ukraine.
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