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Author of WICKER PARK WISHES, a novel, published by Eckhartz Press "It's like 'Hi Fidelity' from a woman's perspective. A 90s book about relationships." - John Siuntres, WordBalloon. Language discussion and expression, a view from the city: "A fascinating and enlightening look at language and other important matters" - Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune "...definitely an interesting voice!" - Languagehat.com "...a great site!" - Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement

11.18.2020

Why I like teaching ESL at Daley

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I've been wanting to write this post for a while, but I didn't want to sound like I was trying to score points with anyone. But I fi...
10.21.2020

Interview with Roger Badesch: author of "The Unplanned Life"

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Roger Badesch, who I interviewed almost a decade ago for my podcast (when WGN Radio was still in the Tribune Tower), has written a really g...
10.12.2020

Guest post: How I Turned My Language Skills Into a Business and Career

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Note: I was contacted by someone from the translation agency Tomedes Ltd to see if I'd be interested in posting an article of theirs. We...
9.16.2020

I managed to totally finish a novel, seriously

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I keep rewriting and deleting and rewriting this post because I'm trying to capture the incredible satisfaction I feel after truly finis...
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7.24.2020

Having a great time with Suivez la Piste!

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Because I'm spending way more time at home (interspersed with times of working alone in an office or with very few people elsewhere), I...
7.09.2020

Social distancing has caused me to study languages more

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When I started this blog, it was very language-oriented, but as the years passed, I did posts about other topics and got involved in non-lan...
5.27.2020

Before I was situationally socially distanced; now it's a choice

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As I've suggested and even explicitly stated previously throughout the years, I've not had the most exciting social life, which matt...
5.07.2020

How I'm still motivated to write even though no one cares

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Like a lot of other people, including those lucky ones who've been published or have an agent or editor waiting for their work, I was ha...
5.01.2020

MasterClass isn't a "class"

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Towards the end of last year, someone asked if I wanted to be gifted an "all-access" pass to MasterClass . They had a deal where i...
4.25.2020

Things I'm grateful for during the virus lockdown

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This has been a strange time, and for a lot of people, a very difficult time due to job loss, anxiety, taking care of and educating kids, su...
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