Get ready for the Superbowl! Though I am not talking about the game that observers say will be exciting and also I am not talking about the creative advertisement spots and the half-time show that are expected every year with equal suspense. You would wonder why, what I am about to refer to, would not be a candidate for the show Fear factor and perhaps it will eventually, when the excitement around the Superbowl has waned. Columbia Sportswear and Breakside Brewing in Portland are teaming up to create a new beer – called “Nature calls”. The image on the can features a bear – sitting on the “T” in “naTure” doing his business and the pile that results, forms the letter “A” in “nAture”. And indeed, as the news outlets illuminate in their stories, the beer is brewed with black bear poop collected trailside in Montana. It is touted as

There is a lot of wisdom out there on how to live your life and how to recognize its twists and turns. Many, by now, famous quotes and sayings to enforce it can be found. “Life is happening” – a quote originally made by Allen Saunders in 1957 – he was a journalist, cartoonist and writer – and his quote became famous when John Lennon included it in his song “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)” in 1980. “Such is life” buy Ned Kelly, an Australian bushranger and outlaw, who is supposed to have muttered those words before he was executed by hanging for shooting police officers during a standoff. The quote: “There is no such thing as a normal life, there’s just life … now get on with it!” dates to the Movie Tombstone from 1993 – it was given by Doc Holliday in response to the character Wyatt Earp asking

It has been several months since I started learning Spanish in an online language school. It continues to be an interesting endeavor – sometimes elating and sometimes frustrating, the latter one especially when I cannot remember the vocabulary we learned and used in reading and talking exercises prior. The exciting part is that the process of learning a new language opened new ways of remembering other languages I learned in the past – often in conjunction with comparisons – as to grammar in general and specifically as to word order and the proper tense of verbs depending on what I am trying to say or write. Sometimes, when I am looking for a word, it sure pops up in my head in one of the other languages. On occasion it ends there and google will have to come to the rescue yet sometimes it becomes a stepwise process, where one