Good luck learning English.

by | Feb 7, 2018 | English

My mom recently sent this to me.  Good luck learning English.  I love our language… but, what a linguistic train wreck it is. Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation,    I will teach you in my verse    Sounds...

Rise and shine.

by | 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...

Two new “classes”.

by | 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...

Those who can’t, teach….

by | 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...