e. e. cummings: somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/somewhere-i-have-never-travelled.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Downloadsomewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always […]
Question: If you were a member of a tribe, what would your name be?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tribe.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMy podcast today is short and sweet because I have a fat cheek after a dentist doctored me up on Friday. So I lisp (read: “lithp”). Anyway, if I were a member of a tribe, I’d be a squaw from the tribe of the Great Gap-toothed Indians and my […]
Question: Which skill would you like to develop?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/skill.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThere comes a time when you realize that you’ve been working hard in one direction or area and have become quite good at what you do. Generally it happens in the middle of what my husband Helmut calls “die Schuftphase” (when you’re slaving away at full throttle). So you’re […]
Question: Where and what is “home”?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/home.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“There’s no place like home.” That was Dorothy’s homesick mantra in the Wizard of Oz, and saying it got her back to Kansas. For her, “home” was where she was from, and where she wanted to be. But I find it quite difficult to say just where home is. […]
Question: Which thinker taught you to think?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/thinker.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOut on the streets of Tehran the opposition is protesting, disputing the June 12 election. The brutality being used against them by the riot police is just horrible. I’ve read that this election and the US election of 2000 are both being discussed as “stolen elections” and being compared, […]
Question: What do you do alone, by yourself, on your own?
One may be the loneliest number, and no man is an island, but some things are better, or turn out better, when you do them yourself. The process itself may be more effective or rewarding. Or the product may be better or more enjoyable if it’s yours alone. Perhaps you have learned to do something and there is just nobody else who can do it as well, even though you’re banging your head to find someone to delegate it to or share the job with. So you do it yourself. Let me tell you about the things I find myself doing alone in this week’s podcast. And I’d like to hear from you about what you prefer to do alone.
Starting an EFL blogging group
Are you feeling clueless about what a blog is and how to set one up to become part of the Island Weekly blogging project group? I’ve made a video for you. Set up your blog here: www.posterous.com or here: www.blogger.com. If you’d like to see what a Posterous blog looks like, have a look at […]
