Tropical Daydreams

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...

The very first time Mark and I heard of the direito de ir e vir (the right to come and go) we were driving home with a friend. We had turne...

Mark and I used to belong to an organization in New York called Audience Extras. For a small annual fee we had access to a wide choice of th...

People have always said that I look like Amy Irving, or she like me. Okay, mostly it's in the hair, but there was indeed a resemblance y...

For as long as Mark and I were card-carrying New Yorkers, black was the only color we wore. Black jeans, black tops, black skirts, black boo...

Ours is the last house on a narrow, hilly street. To one side of us stands the house that recently became famous (or infamous) in the neig...