There are several songs that have been going through my head lately; let me share just a few lines from a few of them: “What if Your blessings come through raindrops, what if Your healing comes through tears?  What if a thousand sleepless nights is what it takes to know you’re near?” (from “Blessings” by […]

Sometimes it’s hard to explain what a linguist actually does.  I mean, we work with languages.  And everybody uses language to some extent or another.  So how is being a linguist actually like a real job and anything more than what everyone else does?  That’s what I often wonder.  And then I heard a really […]

I’m currently living in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.  The estimated population of the city itself is 2.4 million (Chicago is 2.7 million; Milwaukee is 0.6 million) and the population of the greater metro area is about 3.2 million (Chicago is 9.5 million; Milwaukee is 1.4 million).  So it’s a big city and it’s also […]