I can’t handle orzo pasta. Like the Eskimos and the concept of snow, Italians have 300 hundreds different words for pasta. For those of you who don’t know which is orzo, it looks like a giant grain of rice. And that’s […]
For my birthday, I saw a stage production of SLEUTH. A few minutes into it, someone complained, “I don’t understand what they’re saying.” Well, that person was in for a long night. As George Bernard Shaw said, ‘England and America are […]
The future! It’s so full of potential—until it arrives. Then it seems to lose something when we catch up with a point in time that we’ve looked upon in wonder or trepidation (if you’re a dystopian kind of a person). The reason […]
Driving Julie to the airport last week, I got a little reminder of my dyslexia. Most people know dyslexia as a word related problem but it’s bigger than that. Spatial awareness is also a symptom. Personally, I don’t know left from right. […]
Julie is in Switzerland for business this week, so I am left to hold down the family fort. This is the first time since we’ve been married that this has happened. Usually, it’s me who flies off to somewhere far flung, but […]
A little while ago, I had laser eye surgery to correct my distance vision. I decided to have it done after needing glasses a couple of years ago. I just couldn’t get used to specs. I was forever cleaning the buggers. I […]
I try to be a good person. I swear I do, but from time to time, I get a little impish. These teeny-tiny horns pop up and I can’t help being a little mischievous. Small, devious ideas and concepts come to me—even […]
A little while ago, CrimeSpree Magazineasked what five books, movies or songs changed my life. Well, here they are: THE DAY OF TRIFFIDS(1962) turned me into a horror movie fan at the tender age of 6 years old. I hid behind my […]
I’m in my sixteenth year of living in the US—which is a third of my life. That’s a scary thought. Naturally, that length of time in any place is going to have an effect on a person, especially when it comes […]
I know you will think less of me when I share this idea with you and that’s okay. All I have to say to you is… …BUTTIES!! Chip butties to be exact. I’m sure there are quite a few of my English […]