-
Recent Posts
- Noodles October 20, 2017
- Beauty October 18, 2017
- No Apologies Needed October 15, 2017
- PANIC!! October 8, 2017
- Traffic September 26, 2017
Recent Comments
Colleen Moore on Noodles Len Bolz on Me and Jacques and the De… epiphanettes on … Colleen Moore on … epiphanettes on … Archives
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
Categories
Meta
It looks like the WordPress site URL is incorrectly configured. Please check it in your widget settings.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Another Language
It’s estimated half the world’s population speaks two or more languages. I do, which makes me a member of the world’s largest more-or-less secret club. Here’s what you can do when you’re bilingual: • Talk with a friend about other … Continue reading
Bon Appetit
Lately I’ve been wondering why there’s so much food around. European friends and I were talking about that recently as we overfilled our trays at an all-you-can-eat buffet. One of us, his plate a veritable Everest of pork products––sausage links … Continue reading
Explaining Thanksgiving to the French
For decades prior to his death last year, Art Buchwald’s column Explaining Thanksgiving to the French ran in The Washington Post on Thanksgiving Day. The Post will not run it this year, so I will. This confidential column was leaked … Continue reading
The Walll
Twenty-five years ago this week, the Berlin Wall fell, or rather, was torn down chunk by chunk by Germans from both East and West Berlin. For those of you whose notions of history prior to the year 2000 might be … Continue reading
The 7/11 Quarter-pound Spicy Big Bite
Two or three times a year, I avail myself of the best culinary treat America has to offer. I’m talking, of course, about the 7/11 quarter-pound Spicy Big Bite. I’m normally not a fan of convenience stores. I think they … Continue reading
Twenty Past Midnight
It is 20 past midnight and I am sitting in my kitchen with a now empty jar of Maillot gherkins, a half-loaf of pumpernickel bread, a battered hunk of Icelandic butter and some Port Salut that’s been in a baggy … Continue reading
