By Heidi Moore On Jan 6 2013, 2:22 pm

Anyone who knows me, even a little, knows I can spend a fair amount of time with my foot in my mouth I’ve thrown name (South African slang for made a fool of my myself) in quite a few different countries and more than a few languages.  In a note I wrote to the parents of one of my students I mixed up the Hebrew letters Zyn and Tsadic in one crucial word and told them their kid’s…um…fornications would be negatively affected if they continued to not hand in assignments (I was trying for the word “grades” but that one letter made a whole lot of difference). True story.

At a rather fancy dinner party I once said I didn’t like the host of a new cooking show because the woman never shut up and gave her guests a chance to talk. Turned out she was the hostess of the dinner party’s bestie. Awesome. Read more…

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