When my son was ten years old, he asked me to tell him a story. “Once upon a time,” I began, “a deer was lying hurt in the forest. Two animals, Fox and Possum, passed by but didn’t help.” “They didn’t do anything for the deer?” asked my son. “Nope.…
Author: Wendy Herrmann Smith
How to Speak British
Say this with a British accent: “I don’t need the A and E; it’s just a scratch. A plaster would do the trick.” “What’s the A and E?” you ask. “And what’s plaster got to do with it?” I’m trying out the U.K. vocabulary that I learned from Helen Russell,…
Allergies
I think I’m allergic to bananas. I was on a plane last week in the Comfort Zone on Delta Airlines. We had to pay a little extra for the Comfort Zone, but we got three more inches of legroom. We also ate fancier snacks. Instead of handing us a tiny…