Just Don’t Call it Soccer

I like my life. I’ve been pretty lucky to have been born where and when I did. But every now and then, I can’t help but look wistfully to our Eastern neighbors across the Atlantic and think, “I should have been born a European.” I’m not a big sports person. I don’t like basketball, I [...]

Faire Le Pont

In French, faire le pont literally translates to “to make the bridge,” but it’s really an idiom that means “to take a long weekend.” If we were in the United Kingdom or Ireland, this weekend would be referred to as a “bank holiday” weekend, so named because the first hour official state-sponsored holidays (think government [...]

Bleeding Heart

Last week, an earthquake ravaged Haiti, destroying schools, hospitals and homes as if they were nothing more than toy blocks. Hundreds of miles away, I sat in my comfortably – and sturdy – upper-middle class apartment and felt helpless. Aside from making a monetary donation to a relief organization, there was nothing I could do [...]