A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. 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.

Hello. Welcome, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. Willing are the tired to sleep: today, Thoughts From An Insomniac’s Bed.

Languages reflect culture, values, and mindset. Getting to sleep in Spanish is conciliar el sueño as if it were a negotiation between the person and sleep. That is what it feels like sometimes. And there is an absence, not only of the elusive and desired sleep. There is something else miss ...