In just a minute, we meet up with Carl Kasell on his tour of Bingen am Rhyme!
I'm beginning to think I need to suck it up and learn Photoshop.
There’s allegedly a magic three-month mark
When you’re no longer linguistically in the dark.
I’ve been here three months to the day*
But still all I can say
Is I think that claim is a lark**. ***
*Okay, not quite three months. The things I’ll do for an aabba rhyme scheme.
**Okay, my language skills are improving, it’s just more of a painful lurching process, rather than a graceful transition from one language to the next. The things I’ll do for a punchline.
***Sorry, there’s no listener challenge either. The things I’ll do for an NPR reference.
Lori Speaks Denglish 
Hahaha, I instinctively read that in Carl Kassell’s voice as opposed to yours.
In all seriousness, I’m sure you’ve improved much more than you think! Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you’re able to craft together a holiday feast!
Then my work here is done. 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving to you too! I’m sure there will be a post in the near future about how we fandangled a Thanksgiving dinner in the absence of jellied cranberry sauce. We need to chat soon!
Lori, I was really looking forward to a challenge. I think you should pose one anyway.
Sorry, here, have your own limerick:
Monica, Monica, Monica, Monica
At least once before I rhymed it with gin and tonic-a.
Your name is a pain
When poetry’s the game
But it’s cool that it rhymes with _________.
Darn. I really wanted Carl Kassell’s voice on my home answering machine.
Dang, I hate it when I feel like I’m a disappointment to my mom. 😉
With Kerry on this one. Definitely read it with Carl’s voice instead of yours… Nice!
It makes me sad to think that this is, I imagine, partially due to the fact that Carl Kasell probably plays a bigger role in your life than I do right now. Ha. Sigh.