A Most Unfortunate Time to Sleep
October 18, 2021
I must have been more tired than I realized. My friend had convinced me to go to the bookstore at the mall with her, but
Chicken… What?
June 5, 2019
Whenever I came across errors on a restaurant menu twenty years ago or more I could understand why. The availability of native English speakers in
Lost In Translation
March 11, 2019
Translation is an art that isn’t for the faint of heart. The tendency to want to translate literately causes many misunderstandings, but when this happens
Would You Eat This Soup?
January 8, 2019
This happened many years ago when I went out with friends to a restaurant in Cracow. While looking through the English menu, I admit I
Genealogical Tree
December 10, 2018
A friends who teaches first grade is talking with the children in class: “I’ll explain to you how a genealogical tree is formed. First people
Childhood Misbehaving
October 26, 2018
One of the most endearing traits of children is their honesty, although there are times when parents wished their offspring were a little less transparent
A World War Two Story
June 18, 2018
This story isn’t humorous per se, but it’s worth telling. It happened during World War Two in Nazi-occupied Poland. One of the many restrictions imposed
My First Shopping Trip
June 11, 2018
Would you let a three-year old girl go shopping by herself? That is what my mom unwittingly did when I asked her if I could
An Unfortunate Baptism
May 10, 2018
This happened to a pastor I used to know. When he was fresh out of seminary he took a job in a small church in
Children Can Be Too Honest
May 7, 2018
This is a story from one of my students when I was teaching in high school. I’ll call her Joanna. This happened when she was