MamaShift

About me

Location	Vilnius, Lithuania
Introduction	I am a Mama. My family of four is bicultural and multilingual. My husband's job has taken us, for the past seven years, to various countries of the former Soviet Union. Email me at MamaShift[at]gmail[.]com
Interests	travel, languages, multilingualism, music, classical, jazz, blues, bluegrass, literature, thrifting, art, yoga, buddhism, meditation, Eastern Europe, orphanages, gerontology, storytelling, silence, Central Asia
Favorite Movies	A Child is Waiting, Zerkalo, Ballad of a Soldier, The Cranes are Flying, Le Notti Bianche, Monanieba, The King of Comedy, La strada, La notte, The Apartment, Sherlock Holmes (Soviet), Ivan's Childhood, Nostalghia, Tokyo Story, Late Spring, Early Summer, Irma la douce, and more...
Favorite Music	classical, bluegrass, jazz, blues
Favorite Books	Roman Gary (especially as Emile Ajar), Andrei Makine, Edward P. Jones, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, Ivan Bunin, Kenzaburo Oe, ZZ Packer, Tillie Olsen, Zadie Smith, Alexander Pushkin, short fiction in general...