Olga Kovalenko | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:33:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Growing Season https://www.thesmartset.com/growing-season/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=growing-season https://www.thesmartset.com/growing-season/#respond Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=59147 Like many others in the UK, I started gardening during a COVID lockdown. I was a complete newbie back then, and even worse — a descendant of Ukrainian peasants, raised in a village on the most fertile land in Europe, I excelled not in growing, but killing plants.   That spring in 2020, spurred by visions […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/growing-season/feed/ 0 Travel in Time of War https://www.thesmartset.com/travel-in-time-of-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=travel-in-time-of-war https://www.thesmartset.com/travel-in-time-of-war/#respond Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:05:47 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=58012 When my husband invited me for a short trip to Tuscany in May, the first thing I thought was: “How do you travel for pleasure when your country is under enemy fire?” On social media, my relatives, friends, and colleagues shared brief posts to notify others of their movements — down into a tube station, […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/travel-in-time-of-war/feed/ 0 Chasing the Northern Lights https://www.thesmartset.com/chasing-the-northern-lights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chasing-the-northern-lights https://www.thesmartset.com/chasing-the-northern-lights/#respond Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=57080 It is midnight. We are walking up a road that winds itself round a mountain outside of Bergen, Norway. The walk has been lasting for what seems like an eternity already. Icy wind lunges at us now and again, scratching at our faces. My nose is red and sore from me constantly wiping it with […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/chasing-the-northern-lights/feed/ 0 My Little Garden https://www.thesmartset.com/my-little-garden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-little-garden https://www.thesmartset.com/my-little-garden/#comments Thu, 06 May 2021 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=54511 I was a seasoned plant-murderer when I decided to grow my first garden last year, on the terrace of our flat. My husband threw me an incredulous look when I told him of the idea, as, admittedly, I was able to kill a cactus.   My relationship with plants was really that bad. Every potted green […]

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