Life

I don’t remember learning to read.  I mean, I know I did it, but I can’t recall the process.  I remember watching my daughter learning to read, struggling over every word, sounding them out, with varying degrees of success. But I don’t remember doing it myself.  The earliest memory I have of reading is when […]

I thought I had prepared for the worst.  Until it was tested recently, and my preparations failed the test. So, what do I mean by ‘the worst’?  Well, in my case, it’s if something happens to me (God forbid), and my husband, Olivier, has to deal with the situation/aftermath.  I mean, in our marriage, I’m […]

procrastination: noun –  the action of delaying or postponing something. I have a million and one things to do.  So, I make lists.  I do the easy stuff and cross them off the list.  I can see progress this way.  That means I’m successful, doesn’t it? No, it doesn’t! It means that I’m still not […]

Why do I show more patience to my students, than I do to my husband?  That’s today’s big question. We all show degrees of patience every day.  Life requires us to be patient.  In shops, waiting for service, waiting for the bus, when we’re speaking to children who don’t have the same language abilities as […]

Have you ever had an out of the blue compliment that left you just speechless? I grew up with red hair and freckles.  Apart from old ladies telling me what lovely colour hair I had, and one of my aunts telling me that freckles were ‘sun kisses’ (which really did make me feel a little […]