And now, to dumb it down a little…

I am having the strangest craving to watch a really mindless Sandra Bullock film (something like ‘While You Were Sleeping’, or maybe ‘Miss. Congeniality’) while mowing through a whole tub of President’s Choice Candy Cane Fudge Crackle ice cream and drinking mulled wine by a roaring fire. Is that the Christmas Spirit, or just my […]

Rilke for Julie

The girls at the Snail like foreign-sounding speech, yes they do. MLE likes Scots accents, Julie likes German. Coincidentally, I can replicate a decent Scots accent (thanks to Dad) and I speak German (thanks to the White Oaks High School language curriculum). Julie asked me to say something beautiful to her in German yesterday, and […]