You dwell in silence; I thrive in loquacity. You study the human body; I dissect language and pieces of literature. You color the world with your songs; I, through my poems. You tell stories thru your paintings; I, through my prose. You race in sunshine; I dance in the rain. You are forgivingly resentful; I... Continue Reading →
The Poet Meets the Serenader
Two souls meet: one a serenader, the other a poet. The serenader makes the weary world move with his serenades, singing the tune of life’s delight. A seagull in flight to the heights of freedom, free to explore the depths and heights of life’s twilight. His voice lures, ignites poetic fires, tickles every inch of... Continue Reading →
M’s Journal: Scribbled Emotions
My name is Justice, or J as they call me, and I right now, I am sitting all alone under a cherry blossom tree, thinking of my younger brother Methushael. What had happened this morning totally changed my perception toward my younger brother. He left three months ago, and I do not know I ever... Continue Reading →
Building Your Vocabulary
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. —Mark Twain Often times, we find ourselves groping for the right words to describe somebody or something, be it abstract or concrete. Unlike Shakespeare, we do not have the authority to coin new words to... Continue Reading →
Things You Need to Know about Adjectives
An adjective is a word, a phrase, or a clause that modifies (describes) a noun or a noun equivalent. Its main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase and more information about the object signified. Form An adjective can be a word, a phrase, or a clause. Kirby is an... Continue Reading →
My Life as a Writer: Its Ups and Downs
Ever since I was a kid, I seldom find my mind inside my head. I would always find it floating somewhere else: in the past, the future, in the present but at some other places or in some parallel universes where I am a prince, a warrior, a savior, or whatever—but of course I have super... Continue Reading →
“If I Will Be a Girl . . . ” Is Just Wrong
“If I will be a girl, I think I will be a slut.” Okay. So the sentence above is wrong in so many levels, especially in grammatical sense. The sentence above is an example of a conditional. Conditionals are sentences expressing factual implications or hypothetical situations and their consequences. They are so called because the... Continue Reading →
A Blog Response to Military Bride’s Grammar Post
It hasn’t been long since I started writing grammar posts, but I have been studying grammar since 2006, and I have even taught basic, intermediate, and advance grammar both in ESL and university settings. I am not saying that I have mastered grammar; I still make occasional mistakes. But I am quite confident to make... Continue Reading →
The Reunion
This is my second 100-word story. The first one I made was submitted it as an entry to Reader's Digest Asia's contest last year, and sadly, I did not win. It is also now published on my blog. XXXXX Zeke ran as fast as he could. He was excited; it has been eight years since... Continue Reading →
The American Pepper
I am going to share one of the favorite stories that I used when I was still in the ESL teaching profession. The author of this work is unknown, but it is safe to assume that he or she is Indian. Some say that this is an urban legend going around India, and not a... Continue Reading →
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