Tropical Daydreams

I used to own this book, Beaux Gestes , by Laurence Wylie. It's a really funny illustrated guide to French gestures, and was immense...

Même la Bardot a froid Those of us who hail from lands with snow, ice and freezing rain — what might be called Real Winter Weather — do ...

Mark and I just suffered through the Olympics Closing Ceremony — a two-and-a-half-hour long anthology from hell of five decades of bangers-...

As London braves the 2012 Summer Olympics, we're all watching very closely down here in Brazil. Some of us are not watching just for ...

Yesterday was Gnocchi Day! So did you eat your gnocchi? No? You didn't? But it's Gnocchi Day on the 29th of every month, everywher...

Back on May 14th I wrote about three things I miss about the USA now that I live in Brazil. I realize that I forgot one. I forgot public lib...

I'm not sure why I'm thinking along these lines, really. Neither Mark nor I plan to give up the view from our terrace anytime soon. ...