Morjes!

Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

January 27th, outsourced

I had to strip this image from its source in order to not give away the answer: can you tell what these are?

Here's a moderately entertaining video spoofing Lionel Richie's "Hello."

All those babies who were adopted from the former USSR (and other places) are teenagers now and seeking out the countries of their birth. Fascinating.

This article about an Arizona political candidate's English proficiency coming into question interested me on so many levels. Not least of which was the part where the BYU's own Dr. Eggington was called in to consult on the case.

This is an old article, but it's never a bad time to share an argument for email communication being more efficient and less bothersome than telephone communication. I know there are times when the phone is best...and yet.

Kosovo, Unearthly, The Virginian

Musandum, Oman