Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing

  I want the least grief possible-- I said to myself, in my confusion, error, or stupidity. Is it a gift I can refuse, a price to negotiate?...

"We are getting inquiries about Employee summer pay notifications (SPN’s) that have been sent this week because they don’t include summ...

 I was supposed to conduct Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. I had been invited to do this as an ancillary thing in relation to some professio...

 There was a Nicole Kidman meme going around. It consisted of a picture of her with some similarly looking young women dressed in white. The...

 Here's an anti-joke. Why does Jonathan read Murakami in Catalan?  --Because he doesn't know Japanese.  Ei, hola. ¿Com anem? Com que...

"I  also discovered how important rereading was. It was a rule from the very beginning that I couldn’t simply skip over a sentence and ...

I teach my student four methods of figuring out words they don't know.   Cognates:  amenazar is menace (threaten).  English has lexicon ...