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Vraiment occupé…
I’m taking French classes again. This is the fifth two-month course I’ve enrolled in, but the others had just nine hours a week of instruction; this time it...
Hurricane Katrina; Tom Robbins’ credibility; Family visits
At first I was fighting the impulse to wonder out loud why last month’s monsoon flooding in Mumbai (over 1000 drowned, 250 dead from waterborne diseases, plu...
They told you so
So, 80% of New Orleans is under water, people who fled before the storms are being told they may not be able to return home for up to four months, and the in...
L’hostie, estie!; too many tomatoes; digital cameras; SFU
A video rental store near here sells Catholic host wafers in their junk food collection. This is completely baffling, but if you’re at all familiar with Qué...