Kalina Mladenova
Contributing Reporter
kalina.mladenova@yale.edu
Author Archive
KALINA MLADENOVA
Well, Well, Well

One broken heart, one glass of wine, and one game of Jenga. This is what my Wednesday evening looked like. My long-distance boyfriend had just […]

March 10, 2023

KALINA MLADENOVA
The Beginning of the War (from the Perspective of Lydia Fomenko)

On February 24 at 2 a.m., 32-year-old Lydia woke to the sound of a bomb hitting a building nearby her apartment in Odessa, “My heart went to my heels. There was smoke, and then light. It was the start of the war. We decided to leave the next morning."

December 9, 2022

KALINA MLADENOVA
A One-Way Ticket to “Home”

One backpack. What would you take? Not a 20-year-old stuffed hippo, I suppose. Over the past two years, I have been moving constantly. I lived […]

October 15, 2020

KALINA MLADENOVA
Day in the Life in Quarantine

A hard-boiled egg and blueberry muffin for breakfast, sweet potato bowl for lunch and steak for dinner. Oh, and of course, one simply cannot forget […]

September 2, 2020