My First Hitchhiker

We do judge a book by its cover.
I had never given a lift to a hitchhiker – until yesterday. Being a woman I never felt it was a good idea to have a total stranger in my car. Come to think about it, I still don’t think it is!
Having driven an approximate 1,000 miles the [...]

Double Meme & Quick News

Zucchini Flowers from my garden.
Treppenwitz has a new walking challenge. Enrol today as the first steps are to be entered tonight.
Haveil Havalim will be up at Frum Satire sometime today.
For more Summer Stock Sunday, visit Robin at Around the Island.

For more flowers from around the globe, visit Today’s Flowers.

Thursday Musings

Post title borrowed and adapted from Jewwishes’ Monday Musings
- Is the fact that I dreamt about school last night an indication that I should delve into the new textbooks, plan and prepare lessons? I will have two post-high school classes for the first time from September so I suppose my subconscious is telling me to [...]

New Walking Challenge

After the 10K Challenge, Treppenwitz is challenging us with a new competition: Six days… and then you rest.

All you need is to get a pedometer, get a Walker Tracker account, sign up for the competition and then walk.

I found the previous challenge to be a great oportunity to walk more and raise my awareness about [...]

The Coffee Dilemmas

I love coffee and usually drink four to five cups a day. I use a traditional drip coffeemaker with a programmable digital clock which I set in the evening. My favorite blends include one from Kenya and another one which combines Kenyan and Indian beans. I buy them at the local stores.

My routine only differs [...]

My Mom Is 70

My mom will turn 70 tonight at 10 p.m.; the emphasis is hers not mine. When I phoned today to wish her a happy birthday and asked what it felt like to be 70, she pointed out that she was not 70 yet.

Very shortly after she was born, war broke out in France. Being a [...]

Back Online

After a quiet week due to the end of the Pesach holiday, and before Shabbat, I am now back to blogging. I thought I would share a link I was sent via a list for English teachers. If you print a lot of documents, I hope you might find it useful.

Ecofont is a new font [...]

A Few Questions

From the most trivial to the most serious:
- What is so special about egg curry? For the past few weeks the recipe for Egg Curry has been the most widely read post on this blog.
- Does anybody know a blog or two written by articulate English-speaking teenagers? I’d like my students to have a glimpse [...]

ADHD Boy

On the phone with my parents a few days ago, they mentioned that my sister-in-law had called them about my nephew. He is a bright red-haired who suffers from ADHD – this was diagnosed about three years ago.

At that time he was given Ritalin but had to stop after a few months as he had [...]

Free Links

Here are a few links to useful computer and web tools.

Free programs

- VLC media player is multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

- GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software [...]