How It's Going Today, Saturday July 16th, I sit in an apartment in Bucharest, Romania--recovering from Covid. Despite being fully vaccin...

 I've been in a war. Wars are horrible. But I am currently in Romania for the month of July and I was wondering prior to arrival if I wo...

Growing up in Madison, Wisconsin, watching fireworks for our family meant taking blankets and heading down to Lake Monona to find a spot to...

  My mother, who died in 2004, was a terrific bowler.  We know she had a 600 series. If you don't know bowling, that means she once bowl...

It is well known that cats were revered in Ancient Egypt. Ancient Greeks and Romans had domesticated dogs as both pets and household guard a...

Anecdotally, people are reporting seeing an unusually large number of squirrels, hit by cars and killed, on the road right now. I killed one...

In my continuing mission to help promote language learning, I have made some videos describing how I first began learning languages and how ...

Now, in English, the title of this blog post makes no sense. But for Romance languages, in which everything has gender (and in Romanian, sti...

Introduction I am married to a Romanian-American and, as school teachers, we spend our Summers there (though unfortunately not this Summe...

As I was nearing completion of the music side of a Latin language cover version of George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun,...