A CASE OF THE UGLIES Mirror, Mirror In an expat group I am in, we were recently discussing the phenomenon of subjective attractiveness. For example, you are a plain old 6 in your home country, but an exotic 9…
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No one can make you angry like your mother can. It usually doesn’t take much, an innocent comment, sometimes just a look, that goes straight to your heart and immediately infuriates you. I remember plenty of slammed doors as…
We have already had The Talk with our girls. Actually, several versions of the The Talk have gone under the bridge, and I imagine there are at least a dozen more (each) in front of us. Nobody gave me…
I had the opportunity to go to my 20th high school class reunion. That’s right. I’ve been out of high school twenty years and thank goodness for that. Quite a few of my friends in Poland wanted to know…
Here’s the thing. We bought our house 9 years ago. Before we bought it, no one had lived in it for 7 years. The man who had lived there before us was an alcoholic. He died there from drinking…
Here is just the first installment of awkward moments I have had with my students. There will be more to come. Who are my students? Mostly, they are business people who would like to learn English for work. If…
…but do you know where beets and potatoes come from? I’m on an adventure trying to be a very good wife and mother so one thing that involves is cooking dinner everyday. Polish cuisine has a lot of interesting…
I have to admit, I'm no good with names especially foreign names. Good thing I've come up with my own, sometimes humorous, system.…
