Category: English Language Culture

• The Call of the Open Road

  

  “No, I don’t know what I am going to do next, but that doesn’t bother me. It’s time [to go].” A friend and I were discussing her recent discussion to leave her job. She talked about the subsequent reactions from friends and colleagues: surprise, consternation and wonder, bordering on envy. She told me she was…

  Claire Maria Ford

  October 9, 2019

  American Poetry, Culture, dreams, English Language Culture, esl, growth mindset, human resources, identity, initiative, Mindfulness, motivation, personal development, responsibility, self-care, stress management, Uncategorized, Walt Whitman, workplace wellbeing

  American Poetry, Employment departures, resignation, Walt Whitman

• Have you connected today?

  

  People matter. With those two words, American psychologist, Chris Peterson, summarized his life research on how to enable people to go from surviving to thriving, discovering and pursuing what really what makes life worth living for them.  In the Huffington Post Canadian edition today, publishes a video with the astounding title: The most connected generation…

  Claire Maria Ford

  June 20, 2019

  connecting, Culture, employee engagement, English Language Culture, esl, family, human resources, identity, industrial relations, initiative, motivation, personal development, responsibility, teaching, Uncategorized, workplace wellbeing

  community, connection, cure for loneliness, engagement, loneliness, party, relationships, screen mania, social ills, social skills, thrive, well-being

• In Honour of Father’s Day

  

  How many ways do you know how to say father in English? Three?  Five? More?! I thought it would be à propos on this Father’s Day (note that it is Father’s, the day of father, as opposed to Fathers, plural, the day of/for fathers) to write a post on that precise question, and perhaps provide…

  Claire Maria Ford

  June 16, 2019

  Culture, English Language Culture, esl, family, family life, famiy, fathers, identity, parents, teaching

  esl, family, father, fathers day, language, semantics, synonyms, word meanings