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Hartseer. In Afrikaans it means sad or brokenhearted. Regardless of the meaning, it's one of my favorite words in the language just beca...

In childhood, summer meant long nights and tall corn fields, watching out for snakes, day trips to the beach and family vacations. When I w...

It's a strange time, when the expat visits. She looks mostly the same. She sounds a bit funny. Did she always talk like that? What do I ...

Ok, who finished that post title by singing the Reading Rainbow theme song? If you didn't, get out. Just leave. Anyway. I remember t...

"Well. This is disappointing." Something I'd never thought I'd say during my trip to New Zealand and I said it on the fi...

I've started training for a 5k approximately 394 times since I was in university. Running a 5k has been on my to do list forever, but di...

I used to teach high school. I used to make lesson plans that met state and county curriculum and criteria. I used to stay up late grading p...