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by Kevin Burton Here’s one subject that never came up when I was teaching English in Mexico – thank God! In English, when you see the vowel combination “ae” how do you pronounce it? This was brought to my attention on an otherwise glorious Saturday morning by our friends at the Merriam-Webster …
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by Kevin Burton Church attendance is down, way down, in the USA, reports the British newspaper The Guardian, citing two main reasons. The worldwide Covid pandemic is the first, understandable reason. For a while there, few people were going anywhere. The second reason is more troubling: Americans are giving up on Christianity. …
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by Kevin Burton My career as an English as a Second Language teacher came to an abrupt early end one night under the streetlights outside a small taco shop in Puebla. To tell you how and why that happened, I first turn to BBC writer Nicole Chang, who recently wrote about what speaking …
by Kevin Burton It is conventional wisdom in the United States that a US passport is the prized possession. It would be foolish to downplay the benefits of American citizenship to many who live here. But for some it may be wise to at least look into what some other places may have …
by Kevin Burton Leaving your home country is a foreign concept that pushes against everything you have known from earliest childhood. At least for Americans it is. What set of circumstances would cause you to think about relocating permanently? Wednesday we told one woman’s story. Amber Blackmon moved from the United …
by Kevin Burton Amber Blackmon told her story Monday on insider.com, I wish she had told more of it. Or maybe it’s better this way. Maybe we are meant to insert our own details into what she has given. The story hit home because she did something I sort of did years …
by Kevin Burton Within my general and ongoing shameless plea for readership, I got specific two months ago. On the occasion of Mexican Independence Day I lamented that nobody in Mexico had ever read Page 7 (“Happy Birthday Mexico, Please Read This,” Sept. 15). That hurts, because I used to live in Mexico. …
by Kevin Burton Many of us recall best, our culinary mishaps from Home Economics class in high school. But there were other elements to that training. In Home Ec your teachers tried to train you to build a safe, efficient, nourishing household for yourself, and an eventual spouse and children. In the …
by Kevin Burton In the old days at the school for the blind in Ohio, semester break meant Christmas, time off, and gifts. Regular Page 7 readers know I am legally blind and have had longtime hobbies and vocations in the blindness field. So I know a thing or two about blindness. …
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