Daily Lessons / blog posts

2023 was excellent.

I travelled to nine countries. 

I wrote 253 Vitamin Vs.  Read More >

Life is better with… 

What a great way to start a sentence!

It makes you think about nice things. Read More >

Here is Vigism #3:

“Don’t worry about your mistakes.” 

And now, here comes the exception! Read More >

Last spring I broke my leg skiing.

A few weeks after the operation, my leg didn’t look normal.

It was swollen. Read More >

Aren’t people interesting?

When a person has a word…

And it’s a perfectly good word… Read More >

This is easy.

But even native speakers get it wrong. 

You see, when I was a kid, people just said “Merry Christmas.”   Read More >

At the airport (and on the airplane) everything is in English.

But it’s a different kind of English.

I hear and see words here I don’t find anywhere else. Read More >

It was the strangest place.

And just a few days ago, I had never heard of it.

It’s called Kowloon Walled City.  Read More >

Most tourists in Hong Kong go shopping or eating or clubbing. 

But I prefer history.

So today I visited the Hong Kong History Museum. Read More >

I’m a traveling teacher. 

Today, I’m in a new city. 

And what do I always do when I arrive in a new place? Read More >