I was studying abroad in Strasbourg, France and wanted to do the travel around Europe and find myself deal. While I was planning, a friend in the programme introduced me to HelpX, a network that lets you work internationally for room and board. You typically work 4 days out of the week...
They visited many towns, leaving their horse, wagon and dog just outside the limits, where the child played in the grass alone until her parents had repaired all the broken chairs in the place. They seldom spoke, except to cry, 'Chairs! Chairs! Chair-mender!'“When the little one ...
CEO of the World Federation of Exchanges re-elected to 4th term as Vice Chair of IOSCO’s AMCC World Federation of Exchanges The World Federation of Exchanges (the global industry association for exchanges and clearing houses) is pleased to announce the re-election of its CEO, Nandini Sukumar...
I picture bolting for the door, jumping recklessly down into the ravine, and scrambling through the brush toward the big river– but if they don’t shoot me, they’d be sure to track me with the dog. And if I somehow manage to get away alive, what would I do then, with no passpor...
Mademoiselle Source took the new- born child, put him out to nurse, reared him, sent him to a boarding- school, then brought him home in his fourteenth year, in order to have in her empty house somebody who would love her, who would look after her, and make her old age pleasant....
I grab at a tenacious crabgrass. A tuft, like Mom, hooked into the soil. The rhizomes are like short-term memories. The anchoring taproot goes deep, like old memories. Damage either and new growths will sprout. With crabgrass, the sprouts become new tufts of grass, a way to colonize sp...
Colchester, Cabaret and Cambridge alliterate nicely my London visit to my friends and family this week. The stream of hello and goodbye hugs and kisses began in the mid-term car park in Stanstead airport as old and much loved friend Martin had instructed me to catch the free bus outside ar...
“Thank You for Having Me“ DOROTHY PARKER Big Blonde— a feminist New York story in a non-feminist era and grandmother of Gillian Flynn’s Cool Girl archetype. “I Live On Your Visits“ RAY BRADBURY All Summer In A Day— On Venus, one girl is the victim of bullying and misses a onc...
and that helped us come to terms with any thoughts that we were doing something completely crazy. We don’t plan to live here long term, though I am almost surprised at how easy and smooth the last two months have been. Our goal is to experience a year living in the tiny house. We...