I don't write much personal stuff on this blog. Someone recently asked me why not and I said: "Because I don't really want to publish my personal life on the Internet." Yet I enjoy reading blogs that get inside people's lives. A poetry friend here in Brighton has just started a new blog called Swenglish.... Continue Reading →
Linguistic Conundrum: Is the English Subjunctive Outdated?
Guest Post by Damien Venuto Truth be told... yes and no. I vaguely remember my English grammar teacher talking about the subjunctive, but I didn't really have the foggiest idea what it was until I started to learn French and Spanish, where you use the subjunctive all the time. You wouldn’t believe the amount of... Continue Reading →
Looking Back on Post a Day 2011
I wrote a little about the Post-A-Day challenge in my blog post Busy busy busy on Soundcloud but Erika has posted some questions, so I'm going to try to answer them. Here's a little instrumental track I made you can listen to while you read. This is the first track I ever made. Here are... Continue Reading →
