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
Category: Language
Today’s Bastille Day, France’s national day, or “le Quatorze Juillet” as we call it plainly in France. The reference to the Bastille prison that was […] Read More
After talking about his mother, the ice queen from Ukraine, and his father, the dreamer from Lithuania, we now focus on Eli’s growing up as […] Read More
Last time Eli talked about his mother, the ice queen from Ukraine. Now we focus on his father, a warm-hearted dedicated Communist who never renounced […] Read More
We have entered a zone of turbulence. English, French, and Tamil used to coexist peacefully in Minette‘s mind and life. Now things have become somewhat […] Read More
Eli is Appa‘s closest American friend, as well as a dear friend to me. He also happens to have a multicultural background of his own. […] Read More
In this second part of her interview Tomoko talks about going back to Japan some day and she opens up, a little, on her personal […] Read More
My friend Tomoko is cheerful and approachable but she is also in her own way a private person, so I was delighted when she readily […] Read More
One of my goals when I graduated from my French business school in the 1990s was to start working abroad right away, as opposed to […] Read More
One thing I did not expect when moving to Cleveland from New York – it’s fair to say I was pretty ignorant about the Midwest […] Read More