My girls both play basketball. Because we live in a country where not a lot of girls play sports, them being a tiny bit athletic means they end up playing on some pretty competitive teams. Not much of their childhood mirrors anything about mine, s...

I was watching one of those cheesy Hallmark type Christmas movies on Netflix not too long ago. The main character started playing Silent Night on his guitar and I started thinking about the words as he sang… “Silent Night, Holy night, all is calm…...

In teaching short-term classes, it’s necessary but challenging to get to know my students’ language ability quickly. I often hand out questions asking students to “name 3” of something, from colors to emotions to dangerous situations. Students get...

I finally wrote a letter that I have been needing to write. I put it off for months because I didn’t know what to say. Occasionally, I would try out a sentence or two in my head, then quickly dismiss them, telling myself the words just didn’t feel...