Comics
I’ve stuck a comics widget onto this page (Flash Player needed), because maybe like me you love comics. The comics page was the second page I read in the Washington Post after glancing at the headlines. I think my favorite has always been B.C., maybe because I like the idea of philosophical cavemen. Bill Waterson’s […]
Macmillan Dictionary gadget
What do you think of the Macmillan Dictionary gadget on the right? It provides definitions in English and sample sentences to see the words used in another context. You can even listen to them. If a word you look up is a “red” word, you’ll know it’s one of just 7,500 words that speakers of […]
Niche
I teach mainstream business English, and will certainly continue. Sure. But I’m curious about whether I can also expand into areas that mean a little more to me. That means thinking about “niches”. If you have a service that fits a small, but select group perfectly, that will get you places. What is a niche? […]
Breakfast
I’ve decided to slow down for balance – and to delay breakfast to mid-morning (for a proper break between dinner and breakfast). I currently have the great luxury of being able to decide when to work and when to take breaks. So these days I’m doing yoga and getting some exercise in the early morning […]
Perelucci
I just got mail from Uesa Robinson, who has a vintage clothes shop on Capitol Hill. She researches her clothes, and one of them is a dress that has a label from Perelucci’s, my mother’s (Gertrud Hodgson’s) clothes boutique. How marvellous! The Perelucci name and logo was my father’s, made out of my mother’s nickname […]
Emmylou Harris: Calling my children home
Just about to book my trip to visit my old mother. Not having children of my own, I can only imagine what it must have meant to her to watch her sons and then me go off oversees. Here is a song I found after my brother Chris sent me another great link of Emmylou […]
Hinteregg, near Solothurn
Friends of ours are tenants of a mountain pasture for cows at 1000 m in the Swiss Jura at Hinteregg. They run a nice restaurant and bed and breakfast, where they offer hikers, bikers and climbers excellent whole food cuisine, including anything from the beef of cows they raise themselves to French patisserie. Annette learned […]
