Musing Interruptus is a podcast for sharing thoughts and stories and enjoying idiomatic phrases and words. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation. The music is called Down by the Bank by Blue Dot.

I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. Welcome, pull up a chair next to me. Today, Paris, Pancakes, and Platitudes. 

Es muss sein means it must be. I read this phrase in the Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera. It was recommended by a new love interest. At the time, he w ...