This year will be my 20th teaching…so I thought it would be a good time to take stock of all that I’ve learnt. One of the most powerful lessons I can share with any student or teacher is that if you want something bad enough, you can achieve it. I can say so because I […]
A new challenge
For the last six weeks I had the opportunity to teach a local man from Hirakata that many would call “handicapped”, and indeed he was blind. Actually I was selfishly more worried about myself, and how I was going to be able to teach him. When he first walked through the office door I regret […]
Slang
As I mentioned in my last post here on Soapbox I lived in California for many years, but before that I also lived in Scottsdale Arizona for 11 years. Although I don’t really consider Arizona part of the “West Coast” it technically is. One of the things that I always liked about being from the […]
