I find myself on occasion with a whole lotta tabs open in Camino with no real string to tie them all together; today I’m so tired I don’t even try.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper apparently has seen the errors of its ways and reverted back on several of its major shake-ups over the last few [...]
Today the Minneapolis-based blogger James Lileks has a few clips from “The Big Sleep” and I highly recommend them, if you’re into that sort of thing (like I am). (The clips are about half-way down the page.) The Bogie-Bacall obsession is a relatively recent one for me. My primary 1940s film star romance [...]
I have to copy brazenly from Yael and list the most common search terms people used to find this blog, because, well they’re remarkably silly.
3 of the top 5 involve Leehom Wang and Cockney Girl the song. Appropriate for an expat, eh?
A whopping 74 people found me when querying the “English reserve” but I doubt [...]
I started blogging over a year ago as a way to vent frustrations and write about my expat experiences. It truly never occurred to me that blogging would lead to friendships in the real world. But I have been utterly blessed by real relationships that have grown out of blogging, and today was a time [...]
I have ranted in the past about my hatred of the English screen-less windows and the flying insect infestation that results. There has been some progress on my apartment (I do promise I will get to that eventually) and one aspect was that finally putting up curtains–translucent sheers–in my living room has actually deterred the [...]
The odd thing about this blog having existed for more than a year is that I can refer back to what was written on this day last year! One year ago today, my sister arrived from the states for a week-long visit. This year, she is heading home instead of here, although I cannot complain [...]
I was reading blog posts in my accumulator earlier this week and one of them had a picture of a birthday cake with two candles as it had been two years since the blog started. It hadn’t occurred to me to check up to that point, but it comes to pass that this blog [...]
Occasionally I find some comment on this blog that is remarkably negative. I’m NOT going to link to the one that is bothering me right now, but I think it’s fair to just make a direct comment. My attitude towards expat life is one of constant bemusement. I try to write this blog in [...]
It is no secret to those who know me that I have an extreme soft spot for the elderly. Perhaps it was because I was unbelievably fortunate to have all four of my grandparents live until I was in my mid-twenties, and they have all been significant influences on my life. I think [...]
I stumbled on this in the blogosphere today:
http://mjackson75.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/american-christianity/
and found it terribly interesting… apparently I am not the only person around who wonders if the Christian church in the US is somehow going in a different direction from (a) the rest of the west, (b) the rest of the world and (c) the rest of recorded [...]
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