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“Not unlike Star Wars or Wizard of Oz, you have begun your own journey,” said Dr. Tenney as I was leaving her office. I was leaving my home, my neighborhood, my state through yet another door in my life. I was leaving my job after working for 30 years and I would devote [...]

I’ve been a MOM of 8 kids for 37 years and counting but I never thought that I would be a military mom.  That is, have one of my own kids sign up and join the military, the National Guard to be exact.  There are 21 years between my eldest, Michael and my youngest, Nelly, [...]

And for those of you who are wondering if I’ve been to Africa and back. Well, I’ll be telling you about that in the next few months.

Read this current opinion from the to get a positive look on what is happening now in the country.  It seems that towards the north there seems to be more favorable comments on this particular approach than in some of our border line states to the south.  I tend to agree with Kate Riley’s [...]

“Immigration Voice applauds Obama on immigration reform“, headline from the of India reports hope for new and fresh dialogues on the immigrant permanent visa issue in the United States.  ”Immigration Voice, a US-based organisation working for protection of immigration issues, mainly related to the Indian-Americans, has applauded the leadership of President Barack Obama on [...]

No matter what you think of Michael Jackson, past or present and now posthumously, first of all, you and the rest of the world know WHO he is was.  Depending on your age and musical taste, you might not know the words to any of his songs, you might not even know where he’s from, [...]

Globalization and Language Teaching, Edited by David Block and Deborah Cameron. 
Sincethe posting of the past Reading Corner Blog,  the featured book by David Block and Deborah Cameron shown above has since become a corner stone to affirming what I, as a language teacher for more than 30 years, believe is the key and has always been the [...]

No disclaimer needed here!  (Of course, I’m referring to the recent June 12th BGI Blog  ”So… are we going to Africa or not?’)  For more information on the wishbone theory check out: http://www.luckymojo.com/wishbone.html .
Now for the disclosure of the wish… Ta da da dum… “To hear something from Africa this past weekend re: Travel Plans” [...]

I guess it’s not “we” from BGI anymore going to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.  My assistant and eldest daughter Carla kept waiting and waiting with me, first on the passport, then on the visa and now on the tickets.  Turns out that her vacation time was used up while waiting (hope she [...]

Anybody else out there have 3 to 5 books on top of the table, bedside or end table, desk, in the bathroom basket or elsewhere?   If not books,  magazines, newspapers, comic books, printouts, crossword puzzles, the written word in some form or other…  
These are the ones I have out right now.  Later [...]