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- Summer announces itself with a 鈥榗rack!鈥For me, the most enjoyable screen door is a wooden one.
- Finding a place the 19th-century wayI grew up navigating based on familiar landmarks.
- I prefer old-fashioned nostalgiaWhat happened to my old color photos? And why would I want an app to do that to my new ones?
- 鈥楤rexit鈥 and the language of departureA coinage with roots in the theater is in the limelight as Britons consider departing the European stage.
- An African desert teems with lifeJust one day into the Namib Desert, we discovered we鈥檇 been observed, as well as observing.听
- Set free on a bicycleYou never forget how to ride a bike聽鈥 or how riding one makes you feel.
- A toddler鈥檚 lesson in linguisticsShe is insistent. I am bewildered.
- City dog, country dogThe farm has acres of running room, but the city is redolent.
- The novel tale of a paperbackBesides telling a story set in 1850s Britain and India, it鈥檚 a mystery about who read it.听
- Driver鈥檚 鈥 and passenger鈥檚 鈥 edEnglish was not my student鈥檚 first language. And when stressed...听
- We await the new tenantsWe鈥檝e had chickadees in聽our birdhouse聽for years.听Now there鈥檚 something new.
- Free haircuts 鈥 but at a costMy experience? Trimming my own bangs, plus two Barbies and a horse.听
- Of comic books and CanalettoDonald Duck gives a visiting professor in Poland some perspective.
- Love letters on my laptopOur marriage began with a courtship in Times New Roman.
- Where we go to let new ideas take flightIn the wake of the attacks on the Brussels airport, a look at what aviation has meant for people鈥檚 creative lives.
- To darn, or not to darn?Hand-knit socks are satisfying to make, but聽 repairing them is tedious.
- 鈥楤uild the plane while you鈥檙e flying it鈥A look at why a nonsensical idiom beloved in Silicon Valley has caught on so among the rest of us.
- My reluctant brushes with celebrityI鈥檝e always been as shy of the famous as they are protective of their privacy.
- How we get by in GreeceTimes are hard, but everyone in Athens has a village connection.
- Dialing up the past on my landlineIt鈥檚 hardly ever someone I know or want to talk to, but old habits die hard.