Morjes!

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

September 16th, outsourced

Have you ever wondered why you can't say "green great dragon" instead of "great green dragon"? English actually has rules about adjective order. I never learned them overtly until I took an MA-level grammar course - this is native-speaker intuition at its best. [HT Ariana]

Foreign policy unicorns and why [the author] wants to kill them.

How Cantor Fitzgerald survived 9/11.

Punished US Navy soldier believes he prevented war with Iran.

Autism, Inc.: The discredited science, shady treatments and rising profits behind alternative autism treatments.

This. Mom. She pumped breastmilk for her 5-month-old WHILE running a half-marathon. I am in awe.

Catcalled

Stereotypes of Finnish students

Stereotypes of Finnish students