Do you long to be a long-term nomad? It's a life that calls, like the Sirens, to all of us. Yet how many actually DO it, become long-term travelers, exploring the world (and ourselves)? I've long been following one global nomad, Angela Corrias, of Chasing the Unexpected.
Though it is peacetime, the people of Northern Ireland had another sectarian death to mourn recently: that of a 25-year-old PSNI constable named Ronan Kerr, murdered in early April in Omagh by a bomb attached to his car by the Real IRA.
I used to dread writing assignments. As a high school student, and even into college, my pre-conceived associations with writing tasks – boredom, time consumption, lack of relativity to everyday life – always seemed to ruin the assignment before it had a chance to breathe. For ESL students, the task of writing in a different language only adds to the challenge. Here are two pre-assignment tips to motivate students to write, and to write well.
Warmer: Making the topic relevant, familiar and interesting
A foreign teacher in China reflects about the 2008 news and calamities.
Good Morning, Thomas!.[1]
This morning when I wakened,
And saw the clouds above,
I'm so pleased to share the second of our four book reviews/author interviews with extraordinary writer and photographer James Kaiser.
ANN WEBER: LOVE AND OTHER AUDACITIES
MAY 22 – SEPTEMBER
11, 2011
Opening Reception
Saturday | May
JENNIFER ANGUS: ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL
MAY 22 – SEPTEMBER 11, 2011
Opening Reception
Saturday | May
21, 2011 | 6pm – 9pm
Spring is here, and your body and mind know it. Eager to get outside, moving, seeing new things, traveling? I hear you - road trips are much more fun when the sun is shining and the roads are clear. Flying is easier when you don't have to worry about weather delays and de-icing planes.
Spring is also fickle - snow this morning, alas.