by Irina VanPatten | Jul 4, 2020 | Badass Grandmas, Featured
This is my favorite picture of my Babushka Veta; covered in deep wrinkles and all. Her face lit with a smile, with an attitude. Look at her: her arms crossed, her spirit unbending, her shawl tied in the back, and not in the front, unlike most women in her village....
by Irina VanPatten | Jun 13, 2020 | Articles, Featured, My Published Work
Have you ever thought how difficult it is when you are sick just with a regular flu, never mind with such a serious disease like corona virus, and you don’t understand your doctor? In a melting pot like the United States, when many families at home speak another...
by Irina VanPatten | Feb 26, 2020 | Articles, Interviews, My Published Work, Uncategorized
Adrian Bejan is a Romanian-American professor who has made contributions to modern thermodynamics and developed the physics of evolution. In Wikipedia, he is presented as a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University and author of the 2016...
by Irina VanPatten | Dec 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
This weekend I’m watching movies to decompress from stressful two months at work. I’m not sure if the stress threw me into a completely opposite direction, that I would normally consider, but today I turned on the Hallmark channel for a Christmas movies marathon. And...