by Eileen | Jul 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
One of the many places I lived when I was in DC was on a quiet residential leafy street with a beautiful, freshly paved alley in the back that made for a silent bicycle arrival to the backyard. This was a place where I cultivated dozens of tomato plants, coaxed...
by Eileen | Jul 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
I have had a ongoing and lifelong obsession with laundry. It was one of my first household tasks, and also one of my first memories of reading an unexpected word was off the side of the little blue jug (that’s Dynamo!) of 70s-era laundry detergent while my mom...
by Eileen | Jul 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
When I first started teaching in the United States (at this incredible adult-education program outside of Washington, DC), I had thirty or forty students from all around the world, and names to match. I had students from Mongolia, from Sudan, from Burundi, Peru,...
by Eileen | Jul 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
You know that old adage about how you shouldn’t go grocery shopping on an empty stomach? Well, add to that you shouldn’t go to the fresh market when you have food in your fridge and little in your belly.Right after a decent/hard workout (Thank you polar...
by Eileen | Jul 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
For reasons that are unclear to me, my very nice gym in the middle of downtown (which has a little ramp outside and lets me bring my bike inside) has piped-in music only in English. I don’t mean to get huffy, I mean my English comprehension is pretty good, and I...
