While being a classroom teacher in China,  I kept in mind that every seven seconds, those boys were not thinking about English grammar but scantily dressed Victoria Secret models. Honestly, how could a power point presentation on diphthongs possible compete with  butt thongs? But that popular seven second stat has about as much validity as Big Foot. According to an […]

I remember the day vividly in 1999. It was pre-Y2K,  pre-iPhone,  pre-Tim Bartman getting blamed for the Cubs Play-off-Flub and there still two tall twin buildings standing in New York.  A group of us were sitting in a small room at Solheim Center, the swank sports complex associated with Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. The meeting was with Larry the […]