Dooring
Have you ever been riding down the road and someone unexpectedly throws their car door open just as you are approaching? While this typically happens to cyclists, where there are narrow roads it happens to car drivers as well. If on a bike, you could possibly go flying into the opened door of the parked […]
Our tech-crazed kids
Dan Franch looks at the benefits – and bogus benefits – of our children’s screen addiction: It’s tough these days raising kids. All they want to do is sit in front of a screen and play video games. Mouths agape, they are like drooling (“Not on the keyboard!”) zombies; eyes fixated on their computer, tablet, […]
I say soccer and you say football
The World Cup is fast upon us, and while I thought I spoke a suitable (albeit “inferior” some might say) form of English, I’ve come to realize that British English and American English veer in incredibly opposite directions when it comes to sports. Thus, following are explanations of common soccer terms to get you ready […]
After all the boxes have been unpacked
It’s Printemps des Poètes in Luxembourg this weekend – Spring of Poets. CLEW is proud to have a poet of our own, and equally proud to present his poetry, that you… as expats, on the move… might recognise yourselves in. After all the boxeshave been unpackedand most of the“WhoWhatWhenWhere do I, How can IWhys”have been answered,it’s just about timeto […]
Tell me why I don’t like Mondays
Like the New Order tune, some call it Blue Monday. Others, such as blues guitarist T-Bone Walker, see it as stormy. Many might find Mondays to be manic. Just ask The Bangles about that. And believe it or not, one person shot eleven people simply because she didn’t like Mondays. That’s what the Boomtown Rats song […]
The chairman of the bored
Dan Franch on why boredom is good for you: “I’m bored,” sang Iggy Pop in his 1979 song of the same name. The lyrics describe a person who bores himself “to sleep at night… in broad daylight”; pretty much all the time. Professional help is required to prevent such chronic boredom from turning into depression, […]
The business of relationships
Which came first – the chicken or the egg? That’s an ages old philosophical question. The same can be asked about personal relationships and business relationships. The way people arrange who they spend time with parallels how companies structure their manner of doing business. This is not to suggest that people enter relationships strictly as […]
Worry
Are you alive? If so, then you worry. Do you have a job, kids, friends, possessions? If so, then you worry even more. Worry is an inevitable aspect of living. It is something we like to do as humans. The idea that people like to worry isn’t so far-fetched. Worry gives you a sense of […]
All I want for Christmas is a book or two
Books are easy to put on the wish list, easy to buy and usually welcome. There’s a bookworm or two among the CLEW contributors as well, and this is what they suggest Santa brings for Christmas. Dan Franch recommends: The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain. This was Twain’s last book, not completely finished when he died. It […]
Cart-i-Quette
rocery shopping. Like so many other life chores, it’s something that’s got to be done. It generally requires the use of a shopping cart, that cumbersome web of wire on wheels. And as with any other mode of rolling transportation, the shopping cart is sometimes mishandled. That’s where Cart-i-Quette comes in. We shoppers occasionally become so […]