by Dwane | Feb 2, 2018 | English, Motivation
I received this note from someone in the (now defunct) Word Up Live class. I have been out of town on a business trip this week on Pacific time. I can get up at 4 am, but 3 am was asking too much with a full day’s work following….so I did not join this week. I will...
by Dwane | Jan 31, 2018 | Online Classes
Sometimes there just isn’t enough time in class to cover it all. This has been a major problem with Second Year Latin by Robert Henle. There just isn’t always enough time for the readings he assigns. So, on Monday’s (until May) we are going to...
by Dwane | Jan 23, 2018 | Education, Motivation
From age 5 to about age 22, all I wanted to do was fly for the U.S. AirForce. That’s it. I was single-mindedly focused on that one goal. Then, I got distracted. I got married. I decided not to yank my kids from country to country every year. I made a...
by Dwane | Jan 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Hey, guys! I am shutting “Word Up: Live!” down for the rest of the week. Hopefully, we will be back next week. Thanks for understanding. – Dwane
by Dwane | Jan 20, 2018 | English, Vocabulary
Ventriloquy: The act, art or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come not from the person, but from some distant place. Ventriloquy comes from the Latin word ventriloquus which itself comes from two other Latin words. Venter means stomach...
