Sometimes we amateur golfers have the opportunity to play in an event called a "pro-am", in which amateur golfers play alongside professionals.  In most cases, the overwhelming sensation on the…

Say "France" in American English.  Now drop the F, and kind of gargle the R; that's how you pronounce Reims if you want the ticket agent to get you to…

I told you yesterday it was hot.  We started today quietly, reading in our apartment until lunchtime (which for us was about 2:00 today), then moved outside where it was…

I know this will be hard for our Albuquerque friends to grasp, considering that the day before we left home the city was suffering a heat wave with highs in…

Le Tour For 364 days of the year, the words Le Tour in French can mean either "The Tower", as in Le Tour Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower, or "The Tour",…

Have you noticed our days often have themes or common threads?  No matter what I tried today, I couldn't make it happen.  This is what happens when you start scrambling…

Rats.  No, not sewer rats like some of you were expecting.  More like Charlie Brown's favorite interjection: "Rats! The sewer museum is closed today."  I'll fit it in later for…

Suppose you were an artist.  I mean a good old-fashioned artist who puts brush to canvas and produces an image that starts in his/her mind and an approximation of it…

Soldes That's your French word for the day.  It's a shopper's favorite word, and in July and January, it may well be the most commonly seen word in the French…

Today I bought books.  Two, to be exact.  But it wasn't so much about the books as it was about the booksellers. Shakespeare and Company was a bookstore opened in…