For all the sighing and complaining I’ve done around here lately, the truth is that we still sprinkle in a healthy dose of birthdays and other daily joys and blessings into the mix. Today is M’s birthday, and while I haven’t piped out red buttercream poppies or written out happy birthday greetings in hieroglyphs, we…
ten on ten
The last two months the tenth day has fallen on a day when I’m not at work. Not so for the month of August, so my one photo an hour for ten hours exercise should look a lot different than before. If you’re up for it, give it a shot next Wednesday. And if you…
fifteen years ago
Several different moments of thought and conversation over the past few days have led me to the point of this blog post. Here are a few of those threads… a conversation about the cost of a language learning system, and the ease with which I fell into speaking conversational Italian (years ago) by actually conversing…