I recently came across this line in a handy little book I have, A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases: qui docet discit he who teaches learns. It stuck with me. One of my current jobs involves note-taking for education classes, and it is heartening that some of the professors teaching these courses are so…
Personal Health
I’ve been spending nearly all of my spare time reading, the past few weeks. Partly this is because I realized I wasn’t reading nearly as much as I wanted to (Netflix is a glorious and dangerous creature), and partly this is because I received a belated birthday gift of a pile of books (squee!), and…
It was just six months ago that I started freelancing full-time, but before that, I had been doing part-time freelance editing and writing for many years. A lot of work has to go into preparing to launch your business (even if it’s a lower-risk, home-based business!), but even if you might have all of the…
Until recently, the books lined up neatly on my massive standup working desk – just behind and to the side of my laptop, and just below eye level (for me) – were all related to nutrition. They included textbooks that I had purchased when I was getting my diploma in holistic nutrition, raw food books,…
Sometimes we don’t pick up a novel because it seems too intimidating. The novel is written by a great author that our society celebrates, yet which few people (when you ask them outright) have actually read. Sometimes those novels actually are tough to get though and, to be honest, rather tedious (I’m looking at you,…
Since Carl and I share the same name (the Sagan part, not the Carl part, that is), I’ve felt for many years that I ought to actually know something about the guy and his work. When the mother dear and father dear were reducing clutter in their home and getting rid of books*, and Carl…
Last month I had the opportunity to not only watch a graphic facilitator at work during a panel discussion, but also to then attend a how-to workshop on graphic facilitation. They were both extremely interesting! What is graphic facilitation? Graphic facilitation involves essentially creating a work of art as a way to capture ideas and…
Earlier this year, Mr Science and I gleefully took advantage of a Rosetta Stone sale and made the splurge to purchase their Levels 1 – 4 of French. It was exciting. Growing up, I was lucky to be exposed to a lot of different languages. I spent several years at an international school, where we…
2011 has been a great year so far for me in terms of the books I’ve been reading. As a kid, I’d gobble up books and read pretty much non-stop in my spare time. I got away from it a little bit with university and such, but I’ve really missed it. These days I work…
We can all benefit from taking the time to get to know our language better, increase our vocabularies, and improve the art of communication. Playing with words in games is a great way to do this. Here are a few ways that you can increase your vocabulary in social settings: 1) Scrabble: I have talked…
I can’t do it. I’m too old. I don’t have enough time or money. If it wasn’t for x, then I could… One day I want to… Recognize these phrases? They crop up in conversation every day. The excuses that we make to prevent ourselves from actually getting out there and living our lives. These…
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