Tag: learning Greek

• The Great Thanksgiving

  

  Back in the day–when I walked uphill two miles both ways and wrote blogs on a regular basis–I felt less pressure to say something profound when I started a blog post, such as: “Hi, Readers. It realize it’s been 99 days since I last posted a blog, but I’ve been waiting until this very moment…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  November 28, 2019

  blogging, food, holidays, writing

  blogging, eucharist, God, gratitude, Greek, learning Greek, mimi smartypants, random thoughts, rants, Thanskgiving, wind, writing

• It’s Greek To Me

  

  [Note: This essay first appeared published on The International Writer’s Blog at Brown University, which you can find here] It’s Greek To Me The day before I flew to Greece for a month-long writing residency program, I called my Greek friend to ask for advice. “It’s summer, the weather is beautiful, you’ll be on the beach. What’s…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  November 1, 2015

  friendship, humor, Life, travel

  Brown University, dialogue, foreign languages, friends, Greece, Greek, International Writers Blog, learning Greek, thassos, travel, WWIG