I am glad to see Communati back. I hope I find time to do some regular postings.

Just over a week ago, I arrived in China to complete a contract of four and a half months, teaching English at a Language College at Shaoxing, which is about 3 hours drive from Shanghai.  read more »

Okay ladies,
As a single father with 2 girls I can already tell I am in deep Dodo...
The other day I was doing the "Dad is right" Argument with my 11 year old. I ended up with the vein on my forehead throbbing and saying, "You are not a teenager yet, why do you have the attitude already."  read more »

Now days they are a lot of “fake” people out in the world, but no one tops the list then that one “fake” mentor. Every now and then two people connect to work with one another - one that is experience and one that it is not. The one that is experience agrees to help the one that it is not so experience and show them the ropes, becoming the mentor.  read more »

I was just wondering, how do you all write?I took a writing class for work the otherday for work. I am an auditor and have never had to write in any other job that I have ever had. I did a couple of practice writeups from the examples of audits and gave them to the instructor. She looked at it and said, "can I see your first draft?" I told her that I write on the fly.  read more »

I'm having fun at the moment. I'm writing a new course for Ed2go called Journalism for Beginners. It's based on the stuff I taught at Cov Uni for about five years, but I'm enjoying it because I get to write like I'm talking to people, instead of in academic writing style.  read more »