• Why Can’t Everyone Speak the Same Language?

    Why Can’t Everyone Speak the Same Language?

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    Our kids have fallen in love with listening to podcasts at bedtime. In fact, they’ve become an essential part of our evening routine. Bathe, brush your teeth, grab your blanky, and cuddle up with digital transmissions of audible education. Vermont Public Radio’s But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids is one at the top of […]

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  • Pins and Waxprints

    Pins and Waxprints

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    Out here one must get creative to de-stress. I literally got creative and picked up a hobby I had been interested in over many years. With all the African waxprint fabric at my disposal, sewing quickly became something into which I could immerse myself. I then realised there was a whole sewing community out there. […]

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  • Twas The Night Before Christmas (Linguists’ Version)

    Twas The Night Before Christmas (Linguists’ Version)

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    Twas The Night Before Christmas (Linguists’ Version) by Dr. Dave Sayers https://www.academia.edu/9856733 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license) Twas the night before Christmas in the ivory tower, Not a creature was stirring at the midnight hour, Twas a problem for linguists who live to hear sounds, Consonants, vowels (open or round). We linguists were nestled all snug […]

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  • ‘Tis the Season to Sew

    ‘Tis the Season to Sew

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    This Christmas is going to be extra special for us as we travel to visit my older sister and her family.  My parents, younger sister and her fam will meet us there.  All nine cousins will be in the same place at the same time for the first time ever.  I couldn’t let the occasion […]

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