Tropical Daydreams

I don’t like to use this blog to rant, and I believe I have successfully held to that rule (except for anything I write about Driving in Bra...

Last week I talked about the English words and expressions that have been seeping into the Portuguese language, and which have been warmly e...

For years now the defenders of the French language, the Académie Française , have fought valiantly against the insidious contamination of Fr...

I bet you’re all wondering, "This is it? Are you really going to write a blog about a two-letter word? Are you that desperate for topic...

Mon père returns to his Paris birthplace I began to be interested in France when I found out that my father had been born in Paris. I was...