Now we are at Brandt’s 25th college reunion in Williamstown, Massachusetts. We graduated from college the same year, but in different parts of the same state. In a break between reunion activities, I found Tunnel City Coffee to be…
As I have mentioned, I teach grammar, business writing, and e-mail etiquette for corporate clients through Syntaxis, the company I have with my husband. My very favorite of all is the grammar. I am pretty sure I could teach grammar…
Some months ago I said on this blog that I was going to quit coffee altogether. I did not quit coffee altogether. In fact, I did rather the opposite. The employees at the coffee shop I frequent began looking…
Two days ago I bought an iPad. Since then I have used it to read newspapers in four languages. I’m talking about the ones I am currently reviewing: Spanish, French, German, and Italian. It has been fabulous, and fun. …
I am continuing to read news from around the world, as accompaniment for my stingy little single shot of espresso in the morning. But I am still studying grammar, too, and I am perplexed by some things I have come…
I have just spent the past three months reviewing four languages simultaneously. For sure knowing things in one would often help with the others. As I have documented rather extensively, I was often confused. But I could also sometimes guess…
This project has gotten way out of hand. I was supposed to be done in late June 2010, then late June 2011, and now here I am, on the verge of Labor Day of 2013, still going. To be honest, I cannot imagine…
Before I went to bed last night, I was studying 501 Essential Spanish Verbs, from Dover Publications, and before that some French vocabulary, and before that some Italian grammar, and before that some Portuguese Pimsleur—but in the night…
I have my entire adult life studiously avoided books from the For Dummies and Idiot’s Guides series. For Dummies books come from the publishing company Wiley. Launched in 1991, this…
I am pretty annoyed with McGraw-Hill right now. What I have gone through since the advent of this website to try to get review copies out of them: too embarrassing to detail here. I am, where McGraw-Hill is concerned, impotent.…
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