Noah CooperPieces of eight – DeusXFlorida – CC-BY-2.0 When I was a kid we had a variety of different animals around the house. It was never exactly a menagerie, but at one time or another we had some fish, a couple of vicious budgies, dogs and a couple...
Becoming a Homebody in 2020 The year 2020 is surprising to many people and teaching them to live life differently. It started with people saying they had “that 2020 vision”, then we saw the removal of an Iranian general before bringing...
A long, long time ago… We have had a slight change to our bedtime routine recently. Ever since Mr. T was a few months old we would give him something to eat, then a bath and finally a bedtime story before it was lights out and hopefully...
The state of Pennsylvania has played an important role in the history of the United States. The first capital of the U.S was the Pennsylvanian city Philadelphia, and it is in this state where our independence was declared and our government was...
When they appointed the mercurial Argentine coach Marcelo Bielsa as their manager at the start of the 2018-19 season, Championship side Leeds United stunned the football world. A coach who is hugely admired amongst his peers had rocked up in...
For a good portion of my life, I lived in tandem with millions of others in one of our country’s major cities. Whilst I found lifelong friends there, I was never enamored by the big city lifestyle. Never was the line between those who have it all...
It’s been a while since I posted anything related to the language developments of my son, Mr. T. First we had the World Cup when all I wrote about was in some way football related. Then I took a month off to get back some of my motivation for...
If I had to choose one comedy to watch again and again, it would be ‘The Life of Brian’. For me it is almost the perfect film with its satire of religion, politics, education and modern life. There is an alien spaceship chase, intelligent wordplay...
Brazil may be a huge country, but Brazilians love making everyone and everything in it as small as possible. One thing I noticed early on when learning Portuguese was the prevalence of the suffix –inho or –inha. They use it on the end of words to...
I read a very instructive post recently by Multilingual Living called ‘4 reasons why a bilingual child answers in the “wrong” language.’ My almost-4-year-old son replies to me in the ‘wrong’ language. By ‘wrong language’ I mean that I speak to him...