Ya'll, since you don't really know me you don't know that my everyday self is a housewifey/writerly/mommy type (you probably could have guessed that) but all of that hides the real me: IDEA LADY.

I have five hundred "amazing" ideas a week. Typically they come to me when I'm in the middle of something else, like trying to write a blog entry or folding laundry or revising something that's due in 24 hours. My husband just rolls his eyes when I tell him I have an idea; my friends are in awe (and they wonder how I ever get anything done from thinking so much). My mother sighs. My sisters laugh.

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There are some wonderful websites for learning about the culture, art, writing, and everything else Russian.

This is a great site for learning Cyrillic. It's fun! I already knew Cyrillic so I'm not sure that its claim that going down this list will teach you the alphabet, but I can see how it would work. Alphabet, maybe. Pronunciation, no.

For pronunciation, see this section of that same website. Useful rules, although he claims that... more