by Dwane | Apr 16, 2016 | Motivation, Tip of the Week, Travel, Van on the Run
This may take a minute, but hang in there with me. I am going to try to make this one worthwhile. As you probably know, I moved my family to a Greek island about a month ago. I have wanted to reach fluency in Greek for some time now. It just was not happening in...
by Dwane | Apr 9, 2016 | Education, Greek, Tip of the Week
In about three weeks, Duo Lingo will release Greek. I can’t wait. Meanwhile, I guess I’ll just have to wait. This week, one of my students told me about an alternative. Memrise is an online language training course that looks promising. They have a lot...
by Dwane | Mar 26, 2016 | Tip of the Week
My family and I are overseas for a while. I am here to work. We are currently in Jerusalem. In my profession, I use a lot of books. I need these books for work. Lots and lots of Latin and Greek books. To move overseas, each of us carried one backpack. We also...
by Dwane | Feb 27, 2016 | Motivation, Tip of the Week, Travel
I have never owned a new car. In two weeks, I am moving my family to Europe for four months. These two sentences are related. Cars are expensive. The average American now spends $482 per month for the “privilege” of car ownership. And, most of us own...
by Dwane | Feb 13, 2016 | Tip of the Week
Valentines day is tomorrow. I should write about love. Instead, I am going to write about hate. I hate passwords. Hate, hate, hate, double hate. Loooathe entirely. I am older than the Internet. When I was a kid, spies had passwords. That was about it. Now...
by Dwane | Jan 30, 2016 | Tip of the Week
I spend about three or four hours a day responding to email. It takes a long time to respond to people when they’re writing to me in Latin and Greek. Not too long ago a friend of mine told me about this guide: http://macsparky.com/email/. If you are a Mac user,...
