Paul Whelan has spent the past two years relishing cutting the grass.
It is a task that is, for most, mundane at best. But for Whelan, routine things like mowing the lawn, grocery shopping, and stargazing are privileges that he was deprived of during the more than five years he spent in Russian detention.
“I know it sounds silly, but when you’re locked up for five and a half years in places that don’t have grass, and then all of a sudden, you know, you’re at home and you have a yard that doing things like
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