Nakushi had imagined herself working for the police, or becoming a teacher.“ My parents are looking for a boy for me," she says. “They say I can get married and then I can study. But I know that once I get married, it will become very difficult. My dream will never come true....
Back in the day, my mum used to telephone me and say, “Mrs. O’Shea and Mr. McGuire both died last week. Just waiting for a third.” It always made me exasperated, whilst chuckling, as I thought my mum was being morbid. Now I know better. We have had four deaths in our street...
Let me know in the comments. PRACTICE Let's put “show, don't tell” to use using the following writing exercise: Rewrite the following prompt by being more specific. They went to Los Angeles to see his parents. Write for fifteen minutes. When you're finished, post your practice in ...
The music of poetry may be (at least for me) its most important quality. So I’ve taken to reading and recording poetry. I’m going to make this old man blog into a poetry blog. (I’ve posted some of my poems here in the past – long before I began to study writing poetry. ...
I really just wanted to create that scene/moment for this line to exist because I liked it so much. This line happens at 5:42.“And one day, you made me believe too.”As I struggled through the script, as I doubted if this was a good idea or not, I kept focused on this line,...
in a pedagogic context, they may have been ‘like me’ in some way. I left the selection of a student up to the supervisor. I deliberately opted for a ‘light touch’ in my involvement in the recruitment and data collection stages. Supervisors contacted their students on my behalf to ...
My name is Magda. I am from South Africa. I am absolutely passionate about quilting...It keeps me busy and the reward, once the last thread is cut on a … Great Grandmother’s Quilt My 90 year old mother passed away last month, and going through her cedar chest I found a few commo...
Its hard for me to see any Trump ties to Russia--I mean, except for the Flynn thing and the Manafort thing and the Tillerson thing and the Sessions thing and the Kushner thing and the Wray thing and the Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius “Russian Law Firm of the Year” thing and the Carter...
Poet Lew Welch said: "My goddess is Mt. Tamalpais and I sit on the rocks of her slopes and ask her questions and she gives me answers. . . the last cliff on the continent. . . This is the Last Place. . . There is Nowhere Else to Go. . . There is Nowhere Else We Need to ...
Tell me, where do you store your iPhone 6 plus My 4s, case and all, fit perfectly in the little cubby behind my shifter (non-iDrive), but that is not the case for my significantly larger 6 plus. Sure, it's fine if I stand the phone up in that cubby or if I lay it diagonall...