It took us a few weeks since the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest to make it to the theatre. I had dragged my feet a little because I heard it wasn’t as good as the first Pirates, but I knew that seeing it on the big screen was a must-do. I [...]

I read the other day that a researcher at Iowa State University has figured out how to make fuel oil from cow manure. The manure is mixed with corn stalks and dried in large drums; the drying process costs little and produces little odor. The mixture is then thermochemically processed to yield charcoal and vapors [...]

I’ve been in the voice-over business for less than two years. Certain aspects of the business take some getting-used-to, particularly the way people don’t return calls and emails. That’s probably true of all of business, but I come from an academic background so I’m used to a world where people communicate (although not always well) [...]

[scroll down a few meters for the earlier installments] Our neighborhood We had time during our first evening for a boat ride on the Seine and a relaxing view of the city After the boat ride we were ready for a late dinner, and searched for a restaurant that did not have a television or [...]

There followed a glorious week on the coast of Brittany which was a blur of picturesque villages and churches, breath-taking shoreline, extraordinary stone houses and impossibly beautiful flowers as well as sad reminders of the past: The disappointment was that the lovely house where we spent the week did not have internet access as expected [...]

I’m home. I don’t completely want to be home. My two brothers and sister and their families also went on this trip so it was pretty amazing. My sister told me that when she got home she had an email from another Paris family that wants to do an apartment exchange in October. My sister [...]