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Pnin
Books, Funny, Language / Posted on January 27, 2022

Pnin

I first read Pnin as a teenager. It was my father’s recommendation that I start exploring the scintillating world of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels with this […] Read More

Morning Talk in Cotonou
Family & Parenting, Language, Society / Posted on December 18, 2021December 19, 2021

Morning Talk in Cotonou

Last summer we went to Benin in West Africa to visit our French friends who have moved there for their work — they are malaria […] Read More

Flo on Her Italian Heritage
Family & Parenting, Language, Society / Posted on October 17, 2021October 17, 2021

Flo on Her Italian Heritage

Last time Flo evoked her Italian American father. Now she talks about the role her Italian heritage has played in her own existence. How it […] Read More

Call Center Musing
Funny, Language, Society / Posted on August 31, 2021September 1, 2021

Call Center Musing

Ending up talking to someone in a call center, half a world away, about a lost package or a flight cancellation, is as trivial an […] Read More

Switching self
Funny, Language / Posted on July 31, 2021October 2, 2021

Different Languages, Different Selves

We are back from our first trip to France in two years. We caught up with our family and with our friends; with urban France […] Read More

New York
Family & Parenting, Language, Society / Posted on April 30, 2021

How We Came to Be a Multicultural Family – New York, the 2000s

Last week was the first time I traveled to New York in nearly a year and a half, due to the pandemic. The main purpose […] Read More

Accents You Don't Hear
Funny, Language, Society / Posted on January 31, 2021February 1, 2021

Accents You Don’t Hear

It happened to me fairly often when I lived in New York. I would spot two or more people from a distance, walking on a […] Read More

Kazakhstan, the 1990s
Food, Language, Society / Posted on October 25, 2020November 2, 2020

How We Came to Be a Multicultural Family – Kazakhstan, the 1990s

Sometime at the very end of the 20th century I moved from Geneva, Switzerland to Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was my first leap into the “far […] Read More

Silly and Kind
Family & Parenting, Funny, Language, Society / Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020

Silly and Kind

I have lived long enough in the United States to know for a fact that Americanness is a many-faceted thing. Along with inspiring facets, disturbing […] Read More

The Joy of "Literally"
Books, Funny, Language / Posted on July 29, 2020

The Joy of “Literally”

This year Minette has become an amateur and eager practitioner of literal jokes. It all began when my friend Tomoko gave her an Amelia Bedelia […] Read More

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