A homecoming--in one piece, too, despite Putin's best efforts. [View all]

I have gotten no details yet, but it seems that two and a half years of getting bombed and forced to run down to bomb shelters every night is over--for now. My nephew, who has been living in Kyiv for the better part of the last 3 years, is now back in northern Virginia for a while. Best news, he is quite even tempered, and not a nervous wreck. Just, "OK, I'm back for now, you wanna go out to the Indian place next time you're in town?"

It must take some special kind of ultra-cooled emotional makeup to weather that kind of situation for the better part of three years, and I have to say, I have NEVER seen him rattled over anything.

So, welcome home, nephew. Don't get bored!

(fat chance of that--knowing him, his idea of relaxtion is probably going down south of the border and observing the Sinaloa Cartel from some jungle blind, and reporting it back home with an ipad in one hand and a bag of Nachos in the other).