Tip of the Week #279: Three Things Magazine

I recently finished writing a book about working online.  In it, I hope to show other teachers how to make a living online. While writing the book, I researched dozens of paths. I have been earning my living online since 2011. After all this time, I believe one of the...

Word of the Day #95: Pram

Pram: a stroller, a baby carriage, a small vehicle with four wheels designed for a baby to lie in while you push it around. I was born in England.  I remember stories of my mom pushing me around Bicester, England in a pram.  Back then, says my mom, the British moms...

Word of the Day #94: Derange

My local French students and I (I am not fluent.  We are learning together.) have been watching the language learning series Extra. In Episode three, one of the characters uses the phrase ça ne me dérange pas, meaning, it doesn’t bother me. This threw my...

Don’t think and grow rich. Do and grow rich.

The other day, I ran across my new favorite French proverb.  Not that I had a favorite French proverb before.  But, that’s not the point. Qui s’instruit sans agir laboure sans semer.  Whoever learns without action, plows without sowing. For a while, I have...

Word of the Day #93: Cheesparing

Cheeseparing – Saving via extreme frugality If someone cuts for you a rather thin piece of cheese, they are cheeseparing.  Perhaps because they are frugal. Cheeseparing comes from the Old English word for cheese (case) and the Old French word for trimming,...