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March 8, 2019
He’s such a Character
A long time ago, I used to go to a Tuesday night pub quiz. Through the quiz, I ended up meeting Virginija Rupainienė, who is the director of Panemunes Primary School. Knowing I’m a native English speaker, she asked me if I wouldn’t mind coming and judging an English competition at her school. Not a […]
March 7, 2019
Audiobooks – a good listen
So it’s no secret I love to read. Over the last decade or so, I’ve also picked up the audiobook habit. If I’m walking around the streets, or on the bus on the way to work, odds are I’ve got my headphones in and I’m listening to a book. Over at Goodreads, you can see […]
March 6, 2019
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is brilliant and humorous, but not funny. It’s not a joke memoir, regardless of the fact that the writer (and narrator in this case) is one of the funniest people around (in my opinion). Instead, […]
March 4, 2019
A Magical Date Night
A few months back, I saw that The Illusionists, a touring mega magic show which happened to feature Kevin James, an old friend from Vegas, would be hitting Vilnius in early March. This was a cool bit of news. I immediately reached out to see if Kevin would have a chance to meet up for […]
March 1, 2019
Clown Trip | David Magazine
While I’ve written about my various trips with Aga-Boom on here, my personal blog, before, this time I’m writing about the trips for someone else. My latest David Magazine piece, Clown Trip: Breaking the Language Barrier One Smile at a Time, takes the wider perspective and involves what it means to make people laugh without language.
February 27, 2019
10 Gorgeous Retro Board Games Based on Sci-Fi Classics
So lately, I’ve been backing games on Kickstarter (well, games and books). I’m not even sure why, since we don’t really play games at home at the moment. Sure, I’m hoping once we move into a bigger place, and actually have a table, that will change. Plus, I’m hoping that once Monki gets a little older […]
February 25, 2019
Harlem Globetrotters
Sunday morning Feb 24, I got a message from a friend asking if we were doing anything that night. Seems he had some extra tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters at Žalgiris Arena and would we like them. My first impulse was to decline. We had no one to watch Monki and I really didn’t […]
February 24, 2019
Drive past the cemetery, not into it.
This week was filled with a couple of firsts for us. The first first was that my friend Dove bought herself a new car and we took her old one off her hands. This is our first car as a family and it’s a pretty big deal for a number of reasons, not the least […]
January 11, 2019
David Magazine – Books and Phones
Couple of pieces in the Jan/Feb 2019 issue of David – Mine is called Cellphone Confidential, about the problematic relationship we have with our cellphones and other hand held technology, while Rasa makes her journalism debut with Reading in the New Year, a list of some of the best books from 2018 and a look ahead […]
January 3, 2019
It’s been _____ days since our last accident
Well…we went 904 days without breaking the kid. Today the counter resets. Let me jump to the end here and say everything is fine, she’s okay (now), and there will be no lasting damage. With that said, today was a scary day. This morning, Monki was running around, as she is wont to do. I had […]
