Tropical Daydreams

Just one button short of news anchor decorum There are a lot of blogposts I can't write. I am completely stymied by a deeply ingrai...

When you jump into a new language at a fairly late age, you take the grammar, the vocabulary and the expressions as they come, and tread wat...

No question but that nowadays Mark and I are very alert to any mention of Brazil in movies, books or magazines, or in any other medium, sin...

"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could se...

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-...