At this particular point during vacation, the evening group was made up of me, Rachel, Biz, Brian and my mom. We’d just finished playing a “real” game when Brian placed the full deck of cards face down and asked my mom to guess the top card. “What are we playing?” she asked. “Just guess.” What […]
Memory is everything. If an event isn’t remembered, then — for all intents and purposes — it didn’t happen. Maybe back in 121,594ʙᴄ Thorg Jones built a hang glider and became the first person to fly. Maybe back in 74,338ʙᴄ Kraatia Smith first discovered Florida. Maybe last night I had spaghetti for dinner. It’s hard […]
We just got back from our biennial family trip to Virginia. Every other year we spend about a week at my aunt’s vacation house. It’s primarily a time when we try our best to do as little as possible — in my mind, the very definition of vacation. We wake up, we eat, we sit […]
My continuing adventures of using the Duolingo app to learn French. It’s still repetitive, but I’m doing much better than last time. Or am I?