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Have you ever been forced to make the best decision in a confusing situation?

If so, you might have decided to do as you were asked just to calm down the voices within and around you. But every decision you make is a crossroads leading on to a new path of the pilgrimage called life.  So [...]

What be High English then, one might bequeath to others, be they linguists or nay professors of this ilk to regale us with much a do about nought. That as it may be I will thus attempt to shirk from an erudite eulogy, moreover make a few musings.
On the back of a discussion with some So [...]

Homework can be boring or suspenseful or sometimes even both – but it is usually educating. Writing blogs is something most people cannot imagine because they translate it as (boring) diaries which they do not have to be. There are blogs about literally everything even about the weather. But they are all somehow entertaining. Writing [...]

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Return to what or who inspired you.

Ages ago during my Business English affluent days I came across an amazing presentation on the role of creativity in education, it stuck with me. And recently I took up this memory thread and came across an interview with Sir Ken Robinson explaining in his erudite way [...]

A fabtastic and enthusiastic glocal writer tells us a story about her feeling of home, what is yours?

On a Sunday in March, in the sleet and factory smoke of Donetsk, my clan was celebrating Grandmother’s umpteenth anniversary. A deluge of toasts, vodka, champagne, red caviar and homemade poems – my cousin and I were exiled [...]

This is an age old debate in ESL/EFL but I would like to add my two penth from the chalkboard-frontline so to speak. Framing this in where I am at now, and how this is radically different from when I first started in this profession nearly a decade back.
Most teachers coming from the commercial [...]

I am going to move away from my normal musings and like I did with Polamo Faith big up some amazing music.

What with my new ventures in poetry I am very touched and open to lyrics and text that takes me by the scruff of my being and throws it around.
“take all the courage you [...]

I was asked recently by Sal a good friend of mine from Uni what inspires me to write my poetry. I do have many sources for ideas. But my writing comes down to the crux of the matter that whatever passes for a soul with me needs a creative outlet.
This used to be my art, but [...]

by Keti Laliashvili
Germans love bread. They’re so proud of the variety of bread you can find in their Bäckereien: white bread, brown bread, wholemeal or granary, with seeds or without and of course the absolute Liebling: sourdough bread. Entering the baker’s one loses count of the fresh rolls for the breakfast table. Or if you [...]

Although plagued for years by the old adage “there are those that teach, and those that do”, I fell into this profession as my mainstay income.
Following in the blog steps of Anne Hodgson The Island Weekly and Lindsay Clandfield I will elaborate a bit on those jobs I had before my present. Feel free to [...]