A Homeschool Story

There is life after lunch. Right after we’ve had a nice nap to recover from lunch. Which is after the hour of coffee-drinking in the shade...

That has been the sum of my days until 4 pm every day this week. What did I accomplish today? I had lunch. Here is what it takes to make pos...

 A conservative funeral service and a cutting-edge technology conference dull the pain of a terrible choice. -The choice to remove choice. A...

You too have probably heard, and I may also have thought that part of the difficulty in raising children is that each of them is a different...

I think about languages and culture all the time, so this thought may sound as though it came out of the blue, but it has been brewing for y...

  I Want the World to Wake Up Bilingual...or at Least North America Imagine…if we could understand each other twice as well, if we were alwa...

A post left to thaw out in the busy days since it was written. Here we were, just a few short weeks ago. Has this become a travel blog? It i...

In which the happy, adventuresome itinerant interpreter comes face to face with a near-ditch experience, seeks shelter in the first option a...

  My elbow whispers reasons  so many change to sunbirds and fly away for the winter. My legs back, head and heart shout that I am born of th...

"Travel" was not a verb but a necessity. The work was not where my home was, thus, I drove to where the work was to be found, a co...

  Surround Yourself with French: Listening Suggestions Bring the sound of French into your life, in as many ways as you can! Ideas, resour...

Yes, it is still really, freakin' freezing cold here in Iowa, but I am posting this entry all about foreign languages from August to war...

Land of French, land of snow, what else do you not know about Canada and in particular, that bit of it that is Quebec? As a child growing up...

The food alone in France has its own glossary of words, never mind music, festivals and nature. What is left for you to discover in this gre...