LunchBoxMom Profiles Sandra!
Many moons ago, I had the opportunity to work with Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss on his book, “Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero”. Together we’d plow through stacks and stacks of Spanish language newspaper and magazine articles, looking for information David could include in his book. It was a fun time, and David (who is also the author of books on Clinton, Lombardi, Gore, Vietnam, and a forthcoming book on Obama) and I did a great job of playing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. David was kind enough to cite me in his acknowledgments. What an …read more
Happy Mother’s Day
I wanted to take a moment to wish a happy mother’s day to all those women out there who balance kids, relationships, professions and personal needs and manage to come out winners… most of the time, at least. Remember that we make our world; our world doesn’t make us. Keep setting excellent examples for your kids and your peers! You are appreciated (even if they don’t tell you so).
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It’s not often that I have time during the day to sit and actually watch a video or listen to an audio of something more than two or three minutes long. Maybe I do — but I’m part of the MTV generation, and raised on quick cuts, short attention span shots, tweet it to me because I don’t have more time than that. I’ve been trying to make an effort, though, to watch one TED talk a day. TED is an excellent website, if you’ve never seen it, that challenges thinkers and doers to give the “talk of their life” …read more
You Like Us — You Really Like Us! (Thanks, Sally Field.)
We’ve been sending out some emails recently to our clients regarding our NO JOKE SWEEPSTAKES. I thought it would be good to recap it here, in case you’ve been living in a cave. It’s super easy: just “Like” our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter and your organization can win up to $500 in translation credit to use this month! Sweepstakes ends on Friday, April 8th. Prizes must be redeemed by Friday, April 29th. Here’s the deal: Top Prize: $500 Translation Credit Second Prize: $250 Translation Credit Third Prize: $100 Translation Credit Any organization can win! “Like” our Facebook page …read more
Confession: I Drank the Kool-Aid
I’ve been complaining about my Blackberry Torch to my husband for a long time now. The freezing up. The useless “lock” button on the top. The crazy slow rendering of web pages. The lack of apps to make my life easier. The hold button that my cheek always pressed when I was talking to someone. The fact that Blackberries don’t sync to Google Calendar (but Google Calendar WILL sync TO the Blackberry). The fact that every time I put the darn thing down I pressed the corner of the screen and it thought I wanted to change the mobile connection …read more
Traumatic Brain Injury
The Washington Post has published an excellent report on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and how it has been affecting US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. I immediately thought of our client, Brain Injury Services, Inc., and the excellent work that they do with adults and children, helping them to build the skills and confidence they need to be able to have a productive life. We have a contract with BIS to provide interpretation at meetings between BIS staff and the brain injured person and their family. We’ve assisted at psychiatrist meetings, case update meetings, neurological testing, evaluations, and meetings …read more
Trail of Tears, Google Style
Cherokee, or ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ (pronounced Tsalagi Gawonihisdi) is an Iroquoian language spoken by between 12,000 and 22,000 people in North Carolina and Oklahoma. The symbols of Cherokee, as you can see on the keyboard above, are really unique and look like a cross between English, Russian and Georgian. It is, in fact, the only only Southern Iroquoian language that is still spoken. There are 288,749 people enrolled in the Cherokee Nation, which also includes descendants of the Natchez Nation. With such a storied history (we all remember reading about what our forefathers did to the Native Americans in history class, I’m sure), you’d …read more
Children Learn What They Live
I don’t as a rule take the blog space to write about my family, but I was feeling inspired tonight to say a little bit about how grateful I am for the two wonderful little people I have in my house. For those who don’t know, my first baby was Alboum & Associates, which came about in its first incarnation in 2004. My second baby (but the first one to require diaper changes) was David, born in 2006, and my third baby (more mellow than her brother) was Lauren, born in 2008. Sadly, I can’t report my first baby as …read more
World TB Day is Today!
Did you know that today, March 24th, is World TB Day? TB, of course, is tuberculosis, and today is the day in 1882 when Dr. Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, a Prussian physician, announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes TB. Tuberculosis is a common and often deadly infectious disease that is carried by about one-third of the planet’s population. In 2007, there were an estimated 13.7 million chronic active cases of the disease, 9.3 million new cases, and 1.8 million deaths, mostly in developing countries. Tuberculosis happens to be one of the three primary diseases of poverty, …read more
Can You Guess Who Speaks Konglish?
Sorry, it’s not King Kong. Good try, though. Konglish is actually what Kim Seong-Kon, a professor of English at Seoul National University, and president of the Association of Korean University Presses, calls that odd mix of Korean and English that you can see on signs and menus when traveling all over Korea. It’s rarely proofed by a native English speaker, and often leads to some very unusual translations. Dr. Kim cites numerous examples in his article, published in today’s Korea Herald, but some of the more interesting ones he’s seen are a Korean dish called “omma son mat cheong guk …read more
