The most unrelated things make me sad and angry about Russia.

It’s a beautiful May morning where I am now in California (well, most mornings are beautiful in California!). I’m far away from Russia but it is my ex-home country, so I can write all I want about it (responding in advance to a couple of occasional trolls). My Mom left Russia a few weeks ago. She’s still very emotional and angry about everything that’s happened and is continuing to happen so we talk about Russia a lot.

This morning I went on my first run this week. I’ve been recovering and resetting after running my awesome…