Katiaesque

  • 2012

    I hesitated and debated with myself on whether to do this, and finally decided that the Magic Mirror just wouldn’t be the same without a traditional — if belated — New Year post 🙂 I’ve been thinking: why does the New Year excite us so much — why does it inspire and scare us so? A…

    Katia Raina

  • How to celebrate the New Year, Russian-style

    Since Soviet Russia wasn’t allowed to officially celebrate Christmas, we had to have some other major holiday. And it had to be big. Huge. BETTER than Christmas. Thus was born the Soviet New Year, honestly THE BEST holiday EVER. Think Halloween with its costumes and candy. Add to it Christmas with its dressed-up evergreens and…

    Katia Raina