Don't make such a loud noise. Try not to eat too much at the party. It was his first day working here. They will help me find a good job. I don't think my husband would leave me. Give me a public soul. Word stress and sentence stress. World strength. In English, we do not ...
poster the benefit of the doubt. occasionally, however, you come across a post that is so jaw-droppingly oblivious it gains immediate asshole consensus. there’s the guy who didn’t understand why his girlfriend occasionally wanted to eat out at restaurants, given the meals she cooked every...
29 years ago this Christmas Doug and I were waiting for the birth of our first child any day. My situation could not have been more different from Mary’s. I was 30 years old, married, educated, employed. I was surrounded by a loving, supported family who were thrilled at the prospect...
“It’s dying out, you know,” he said, “the real old-fashioned type of Christmas. People spend it at hotels nowadays. But an English Christmas with all the family gathered round, the children and their stockings, the Christmas tree, the turkey and plum pudding, the crackers. The snowm...
the best part: the city provides each household with two compost bins–a little kitchen composter and a big ‘tip in’ Green Bin for the weekly pick up. When you move, you have to leave your bins for the next resident. The municipality also picks up the waste at no additional charge–...
What advantage did I have coming in, away from family, friends and all possible connections and at a time it was a pain to even get my education certified? Or for that matter, what advantage did I have, when most people have truly bizarre ideas about Portugal, (including but not limited...