Noah CooperOne from the family album (Samantha Meets Mocha by AMagill – CC-BY-2.0) Shakespeare got it wrong. He might have been a great wordsmith and playwright who could look into people’s souls and see what made them tick. But when it came to...
(Wikipedia) A while ago I was talking to a good friend of mine who used to be an English teacher, but who has now moved on to other things. We were talking about how frustrating it can be teaching young children English and, despite only ever...
AHA! (Benabomb on Wikimedia CC-BY-SA 3.0) For a long time Mr. T has been saying ‘dah‘ for ‘yes’ or ‘sim‘, as I might have mentioned before. And then last week it changed. I had half expected him to start saying...
“There is this theory of the Moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop from which there is no escape. So when we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again.” This was what Worf and Geordi Le Forge in...
Curitiba’s coat of arms (Wikipedia) Last week I sang the praises of my adopted city by looking at 7 things it gets completely right. In the pursuit of balance, here are 6 things that Curitiba gets completely wrong. 1. Pavements The pavements...
Curitiba’s flag kind of reminds me of another one I know well. (Wikipedia) I have been living in Curitiba for a while now and, while it might not be the best city in the world it certainly has a lot going for it. Here are 7 things that I...
Tons do Azul – Blue Tones by Mateus Pabst – CC-BY-2.0 While most people reading this have been suffering from a wet and cold winter in the northern hemisphere, we in the south have been enjoying our summer. On Boxing Day our family did...
Ho! Ho! Ho! (rishibando) What does Christmas mean to you? To me, it isn’t such a big deal. I am not some Scrooge-like figure who bah-humbugs his way through the holiday season, wishing everyone would just go back to work and stop enjoying...
Alfredo Andersen – Ilha do Mel (Wikipedia) Ok, so it isn’t really Curitiba’s best beach, but that is because Curitiba doesn’t have any beaches seeing as how it is up on a plateau about 1, 000m above sea level. However, in...
If Darth Vader had been a good dad. blurppy.com I am a bad daddy. My wife is a bad mamãe. My dad is a bad do doe (granddad) and my mum is a bad nana. How do I know this? Because my son has told us all exactly how bad we are. And the thing is I am...