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Category Archives: nostalgia
When My Memory Surprises Me
When I was a kid, watching afterschool TV with my sisters, we had an unwritten competition surrounding some of those classic TV shows. I am talking about the Brady Bunch or Gilligan’s Island or possibly My Three Sons. These shows … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, knowledge, memory, nostalgia, siblings, television, trivia, TV
Tagged episodes, Gilligan's Island, golden age of TV, Happy Days, Hogan's Heroes, Jeopardy, Joanie Loves Chachi, My Three Sons, One Day at a Time, Scene It, television, the Brady Bunch, trivia, TV
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When Shopping At A Japanese Grocery Store
Once, a long time ago, I watched a Japanese TV program that was waxing nostalgic about Japanese summer treats. One of the things they mentioned was Monaka. If I remember correctly, the program was not really talking about the Monaka … Continue reading
Coffee Old School
If my coffee maker had died after it made my coffee yesterday morning, I could have then gone out and bought a new one (fixing the old one would be preferable, but it was beyond my skills). Since that is … Continue reading
What happened to Facebook?
As an ESL teacher, I am sometimes caught in a time warp. Of course, teaching people younger than I am is always going to expose a generation gap, but actually it is the textbooks that are a bigger culprit. This … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, ESL, nostalgia, social media, students, teaching
Tagged ESL, ESL students, evolution, facebook, generation gap, nostalgia, old, outdated, rate of change, social media, speed of change, students, Toronto
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Peeling Back Time
Several years ago I was at the Sunfest (a fantastic free world music festival) in London, Ontario and spotted one of my favourite professors. I wanted to go and talk to him, tell him about his great teaching, and how … Continue reading
Posted in accomplishment, Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, class, compliments, ESL, memory, nostalgia, students, teaching, university, UWO
Tagged Carmichael, correcting students, English, ESL, incredible, London, memory, nostalgia, Ontario, recognition, remembering, reminisce, students, Sunfest, teacher's room, teaching
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The Healing Power of Ramen
Lately, I had been feeling that my connection to Japan had started to wane. I hadn’t eaten any Japanese food recently. I hadn’t watched any Jvloggers–or at least the Jvloggers I had watched were reporting from places other than Japan. … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, comfort food, eating, ethnic food, food, Japanese, nostalgia, ramen, restaurant, Toronto
Tagged food, gyoza, Japanese food, nostalgia, ramen, side dish, soup, spicy, Toronto
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Evoking Memories
I don’t know if everyone is old enough to remember Welcome Back Kotter. I suppose it must come back from time to time in reruns–but in this Netflix age, perhaps that isn’t true anymore. I watched the show pretty faithfully … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, memories, memory, nostalgia, show, television, TV
Tagged clown, dating, ending, high school, juggling, theme song, unicycle, Welcome Back Kotter
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Are These Popular Again?
When I was young, the most popular souvenir seemed to be the Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt. I saw them everywhere. I saw them on old people, young people, men, women, and children. The locations varied from London and Paris to … Continue reading
Nostalgia
A long time ago, in the previous century in fact, I taught in Japan. I taught in a small city jammed up into the corner created by the corner of Osaka and Nara Prefectures. It had beautiful mountains that housed a huge … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, ESL, Japan, Japanese, nostalgia, students, travel
Tagged connections, ESL, Hashimoto, nostalgia, teaching, Wakayama
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Coffee Break
My ability to connect to WordPress went out last night and didn’t come back again until about one. While taking a break from blogging certainly isn’t a bad thing, I like it better when I do it on my terms, … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, beverages, coffee, cookies, nostalgia, snacks
Tagged 400, beverages, blogging, blogs, break, coffee, coffee time, cookies, grandparents, snacks, Wordpress login problem
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