I just had to review a book for one of my freelance jobs, and the book was The 100 Best Volunteer Vacations to Enrich Your Lifeby Pam Grout. Normally, I'm instantly put off by any "100 best" kind of titles (they remind me too much of the See-Before-You-Die types of books, which I really dislike), …
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Do you know the population of your country?
(United Nations HQ, New York)Recently in my ESL class we had a conversation about what basic facts everyone should know about their own country. This came up because we discovered that at least half of our class members, from different countries and continents, had almost no idea of the population …
New Year’s resolutions on travel and travel writing
Over at my Becoming A Fiction Writer blog, I make a big deal every year about my New Year's resolutions for fiction writing, and try my hardest to stick to them (usually failing at some and succeeding at others). But I've just realised that Not A Ballerina doesn't have a post on goals for 2010, …