Genre of the Week: What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali
Typical one-room school house and church in Iowa. Teaching: A profession that is undervalued, underappreciated and underloved. Teachers: People who enter the classroom with one thing in mind: to...
View ArticleGenre of the Week: The Benefits of Failure by J.K. Rowling
Carnegie Library in Little Falls, MN, one of the entrepreneuer’s finest architectural works. Photo taken in 2011 There was an old proverb when looking at this genre: Andrew Carnegie went from rags to...
View ArticleCan Learning a Second Language Destroy Your Native Tongue?
GUEST COLUMN: For those who have been living in a country outside your home, and have had problems forgetting some words in your own language, you’re not alone. I’ve had this experience, especially...
View ArticleBlacksmithing Words With TH: Mr. Smith’s Guide in Using TH-Words in English
When I first came to Germany in 1999, one of the main struggles I saw and even witnessed myself in learning a foreign language was the way words were pronounced. In particular, words in English that...
View ArticleGenre of the Week: The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain
As we look at ways to control the sale of guns and put an end to gun violence in the United States, one of the aspects that was brought many times is mental health. People who think that we should...
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