Notes like this keep me going…

The Latin and Greek world can be a lonely world of dry, dusty books.  Notes like this keep me going: “I just wanted to let you know that I am loving your classes! I say that in the plural form because even though I am really taking the Lingua Latina class, I am also...

Help me?

I received a cry for help.  To keep myself on track, I responded to her questions in red.  Her questions are in black font. Ok so I think I get it. Your classes are live? & recorded.  Correct.  Live and recorded.  Come to class if you can, or watch class later...

Poverty

I have started reading “The Tao of Seneca” by Tim Ferris. In Seneca’s second letter, I found this: “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. What does it matter how much a man has laid up in his safe, or...

How to stand out.

In one of my favorite books, The Pledge, by Michael Masterson, the author reports that the average American reads one book per year. It may not be that bad.  According to the Pew Research Center, the average American in 2013 read a book a month. What about...

No sugar so far.

I haven’t eaten any sugar in 11 days. As best I can remember, I haven’t had a “no sugar” streak of 11 days since I first discovered sugar in England… as a 6-month-old.   I am estimating, of course.  I don’t have many memories of the...