I asked my 12 kids to write about the one profession they would least like. A third chose doctors, down there with butcher and Walmart greeter. Here’s why: I like free time job. Also, it’s too boring. Check and cure people every day. I think it’s difficult for me to do the same thing every day. I don’t like biology. And I think organ is really horrible. I don’t have courage to touch. I am […]
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A gathering of words
Topic Sentences
I asked my so-called intermediate students to write some topic sentences for homework. Here are some of them. Shoes can’t be made of weather. War always creates big problem between two people. War is dispiteous but it is important for human. Shoes are so cruel.
Read moreOneself & Others
Eleni and Emmy spent the night last night. This morning Eleni told me about a dream she’d had, in which “a man self-immolated a woman.” She acknowledged the oxymoronic nature of the statement, and then we went on to elaborate on the idea: He doesn’t give me any self-respect. He self-motivates me. She wrote an autobiography about him. She painted a self-portrait of him. She killed him by auto-asphyxiation. He’s self-conscious of her. She doesn’t […]
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Mom was at a church-lady meeting at the other day, where the biddies were discussing pros and cons of constructing a new holy building. At the end of much debate, a certain Mrs. R____ [not my mother this time], chimed in. “I say we should grab the bull by the balls and run with it.” No one made a peep in response to this Hemingway. When I talk with Emmy and Eleni on video chat, […]
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