When I was sixteen years old, I had my first real paying job (though these days, ninety cents an hour doesn’t seem like real pay). I had a car my Dad helped me buy, and a girlfriend, too. There... Read more >>

At Aswan, a little over four hundred miles up the Nile from Cairo, on a granite headland opposite Elephant Island, sits the Old Cataract Hotel. A terra-cotta colored building, built in 1899 at a... Read more >>

1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.  2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned... Read more >>

On my second day as a resident of Los Angeles I was told that I would never make it as a writer in Hollywood. His reasoning: “You’re too nice. People like you, writers like you, never last... Read more >>

Slang is defined as an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious figures of speech, according to... Read more >>

If you have a foreign accent, you probably have a love/hate relationship with it. On one hand, you know that your accent is a part of who you are and points back to your country of origin, a place you... Read more >>

Hola, a lectores de Carolina Divina. ¿Cómo están Uds. hoy? Those of you whose mother tongue is Spanish will recognize that simple greeting. How many of you who have spoken only... Read more >>

I had to do my fair share of adjusting when I moved to England. I survived the culture shock and the beans for breakfast, but it was the whole “You say tomAAAto , I say tomAHto” thing that... Read more >>

One of my favorite things about traveling is seeing how English is used, or misused. Apparently I'm not alone. Most of these seem to be from Asian countries, however there are a few from other parts... Read more >>

Funny photos shot in Taiwan. Read more >>