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Why is it when you try something new, it feels like everyone is looking at you? Especially in a foreign country? When you are in another country, trying to speak the few words you know of the language, it feels like time has stopped and everyone in the room is focused with laser-like precision on what [...] At last, I finally figured out how to use Skype on my cell phone and possibly even integrate it with my phone number. Not that it’s the hard, it just took me awhile to a) get an iPhone and b) set up the service. Now maybe I don’t need to worry that my phone service isn’t [...] My November was so much fun! I wrote a novel. Well…the first draft of a novel, as part of National Novel Writing Month.
Over the 30 days of November I wrote a book: 53,902 words, an average of 1,796 words per day. It was a blast! Now it’s time for a little [...] When you travel, do you ever feel connected with the others who are traveling a similar path?
Like a tour group you end up with at a museum, or a family that adopts you on the bus to somewhere, the people you meet in the breakfast room at your hotel, the traveler next to [...] Why is it that I am perfectly willing to try speaking a foreign language when I am in another country? But I struggle with trying out another language when I am here at home? In a class is no problem because we are all learning. But outside the classroom, in the real world where people don’t [...] Here are some key phrases I learn before I head off to places where I don’t speak the language. Please / thank you / you’re welcome Two phrases I beg of you to refrain from in my presence and whose banishment from news outlets I dream of: both sides of the aisle (or variations: either side of the aisle, her side of the aisle, etc.) Main Street, when juxtaposed with Wall Street (it’s perfectly acceptable if you are, for example, directing me to [...] What is the best travel version of you? Are you best on the journey to and from–on the plane, train, or automobile? Does your best self come out when wandering and wondering–such wandering near your hotel on your first night, looking for dinner, and wondering if everything looks closed because you are too late…or too early? Do you [...] Check this out: Project Implicit The demo site lets you test your unspoken assumptions about things like race, age, gender, and weight. If you’re like me, those first test results will knock you for a loop. In a good way. Knowledge is, as they say, power. After walking through customs in Salzburg, I hopped a cab to my hotel. The Am Dom. No problem. I knew the basic pleasantries of German, the name of my hotel, and roughly how much to expect it to cost. Of course, I didn’t know is how to actually pronounce the name of my hotel. Can’t be [...] |
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