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Category Archives: Musing Articles
Favorite Jams I’ve Been Jamming to
Today I was biking through Golden Gate Park jamming to a song I just discovered – It’s called “Weight in Gold” by Gallant. It’s a brilliant song, making want to rock my body into a sea of sequins and rubies … Continue reading
Posted in FYI, Just for Fun, Music, Musing Articles, Musings, Videos
Tagged artists, music, music videos, pop, rap, rock, rocking out, song, songs, top songs, video, wolf alice
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On Moving to California
Four years ago, I moved to Brussels, Belgium knowing only one person who broke my little 22-year-old heart as soon as I arrived. Last year, I quit my steady job in New York to move down and travel around … Continue reading
Posted in America., Cities, FYI, Just for Fun, Musing Articles, Musings, Portfolio, Travel
Tagged home, moving, new york, san francisco, the oc, travel, wanderlust
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Happy Thanksgiving, Y’all: Some thoughts on food words
I frequent Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com probably more than most people, because what fun is speaking or writing if you can’t out-vocab someone? They’ve also got a great blog that I occasionally peruse when Gawker gets overly snarky or the BBC … Continue reading
Posted in America., Bad English, Bad Words, Culture, English, Expressions, French, FYI, Great Words that Don't Exist in Engilsh, Italian, Language, Learning English, Musing Articles, Portfolio, Rants, Untranslatable
Tagged bon appétit, dictionary, dictionary.com, epxressions, food, food words, french, hey! arnold, holidays, idioms, italian, new york magazine, ny mag, nyc, spanish, synonyms, thanksgiving, thesaurus, thesaurus.com, turkey, vocabulary
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