Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry)
@klfnb.bsky.social
Retired linguist, language teacher, and researcher in Maryland. Now doing what I love: reading, traveling with my hubby, working on our family tree, spending time with grandchildren, working out, studying languages, substitute teaching, walking Sophie.
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Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light (Gift Article)
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents.
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March 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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In 1978 I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal working on a USAID rural health program in the Sine-Saloum region of the country. The program’s goal was to construct health huts in selected villages so that people could get basic medicines without leaving the village.
February 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In 1978 I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal working on a USAID rural health program in the Sine-Saloum region of the country. The program’s goal was to construct health huts in selected villages so that people could get basic medicines without leaving the village.
Sophie: “I’m too old to deal with snow on my feet. Please shovel down to the grass for me.”
January 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Sophie: “I’m too old to deal with snow on my feet. Please shovel down to the grass for me.”
Enjoying my new book - a Christmas present from my daughter.
January 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Enjoying my new book - a Christmas present from my daughter.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all.
December 25, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all.
Just started White Nights by Ann Cleeves. One of the things I most like about her writing is the incorporation of Shetland vocabulary. So far I have come across "simmer dim", "voe", and "soothmoother" - I just love it. Thank you @anncleeves.bsky.social for the chance to escape to #Shetland each day.
November 25, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Just started White Nights by Ann Cleeves. One of the things I most like about her writing is the incorporation of Shetland vocabulary. So far I have come across "simmer dim", "voe", and "soothmoother" - I just love it. Thank you @anncleeves.bsky.social for the chance to escape to #Shetland each day.
Sophie is not sure she wants to go to the Vet. She keeps popping out of her carrier.
November 21, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Sophie is not sure she wants to go to the Vet. She keeps popping out of her carrier.
I was in 5th grade at Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School in Glendale, California. It was morning. All teachers were told to bring students outside to the flagpole. Then the principal told us that the President was dead. We silently went back to class. My teacher started to cry.
November 21, 2024 at 10:24 PM
I was in 5th grade at Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School in Glendale, California. It was morning. All teachers were told to bring students outside to the flagpole. Then the principal told us that the President was dead. We silently went back to class. My teacher started to cry.
I have always loved mystery fiction. Right now I am working my way through Ann Cleeves' Shetland series. Blue Lightning was superb with its details about life on Fair Isle, the most remote inhabited island in the UK.
November 21, 2024 at 10:05 PM
I have always loved mystery fiction. Right now I am working my way through Ann Cleeves' Shetland series. Blue Lightning was superb with its details about life on Fair Isle, the most remote inhabited island in the UK.