Lighten up!

Like over 20 other Americans, I suffer from a desire to reach personal goals.  Around this time of year, I start planning the next. William James once said, “Think in the morning.  Act in the noon.”  I’d like to add one more sentence.  “Laugh...

How I am learning Italian.

The other day, I received a sad email.  Here it is: I am looking for someone to practise speaking with using the lingua Latina course as the basis.i have had two tutors but I am still not able to speak the language after 11 years of effort. Do your online courses help...

Schedule change

I received this question: Just to clarify:  The syllabus schedule would have us meeting, Nov 30, Dec 7, Dec 14 and Dec 21, then NOT meeting on Dec 28 & Jan 4. GoToMeeting (and thus my calendar) have us skipping Dec 21 and Dec 28 and then meeting Jan 4.  ...

Coming this Monday

Don’t spend all of your money this black Friday.  Compass Classroom is about to run a cyber Monday sale.  It’s going to look like this: – Visual Latin Set (35% off) – History Set (55% off) – Economics for Everybody (40% off) –...

Start in the shallow end of the pool.

Not long ago, while I was working online, an advertisement popped up.  It posed a simple question.  “Which Latin author do you prefer?”  The advertisement, in the form of a survey, gave four choices.  I could choose Cicero, Ceasar, Virgil, or Livy.  I prefer none of...