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- Memorable fish I’ve been given
It’s best to learn to catch them, but I’m glad to be handed one, too.
- The Maine attraction
My first memory of the place is framed above the prow of a canoe.
- Spinach helps me feel accepted
In Paris, it was learning how baguettes should be eaten; here, it’s liking ‘leaves.’
- Summer announces itself with a ‘crack!’
For me, the most enjoyable screen door is a wooden one.
- Finding a place the 19th-century way
I grew up navigating based on familiar landmarks.
- I prefer old-fashioned nostalgia
What happened to my old color photos? And why would I want an app to do that to my new ones?
- ‘Brexit’ and the language of departure
A coinage with roots in the theater is in the limelight as Britons consider departing the European stage.
- An African desert teems with life
Just one day into the Namib Desert, we discovered we’d been observed, as well as observing.
- Set free on a bicycle
You never forget how to ride a bike – or how riding one makes you feel.
- A toddler’s lesson in linguistics
She is insistent. I am bewildered.
- City dog, country dog
The farm has acres of running room, but the city is redolent.
- The novel tale of a paperback
Besides telling a story set in 1850s Britain and India, it’s a mystery about who read it.
- Driver’s – and passenger’s – ed
English was not my student’s first language. And when stressed...
- We await the new tenants
We’ve had chickadees in our birdhouse for years. Now there’s something new.
- Free haircuts – but at a cost
My experience? Trimming my own bangs, plus two Barbies and a horse.
- Of comic books and Canaletto
Donald Duck gives a visiting professor in Poland some perspective.
- Love letters on my laptop
Our marriage began with a courtship in Times New Roman.
- Where we go to let new ideas take flight
In the wake of the attacks on the Brussels airport, a look at what aviation has meant for people’s creative lives.
- To darn, or not to darn?
Hand-knit socks are satisfying to make, but repairing them is tedious.
- ‘Build the plane while you’re flying it’
A look at why a nonsensical idiom beloved in Silicon Valley has caught on so among the rest of us.