Monthly Archives: January 2015

Good News Challenge- Day 8

Posted on January 30, 2015 by

Human Rights Watch released its annual report today. The analyst who wrote the foreword, Kenneth Roth, opens it with the words “The world has not seen this much tumult for a generation.” It’s not hard to see where he gets his … Continue reading →

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Good News Challenge- Day 7

Posted on January 29, 2015 by

First piece of good news of the day…the Good News Digest is back! Yesterday and the day before, I was at the studio, then I’d go to the gym or music class, then come back and work on freelance assignments … Continue reading →

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Good News Challenge– day 6

Posted on January 27, 2015 by

This was a hard day. The Ukraine conflict, journalists kidnapped in South Sudan and jailed in Burundi, missing students in Mexico and teenage girls on a First Nations reservation outside Montreal still missing, people spouting cynicism the day after the … Continue reading →

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10-day Good News Challenge- Day 5

Posted on January 26, 2015 by

Halfway through the Good News Challenge– maybe I’ll try to do it for 20 days? How about Greek voters not listening to scare tactics and voting for a party that seems to want to put the Greek worker first– and … Continue reading →

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Good News Challenge– Day 4

Posted on January 24, 2015 by

I’m in a bit of a hurry this morning but not in too much of a hurry to skip over a good thing. For Day 4 of the Good News Challenge, I present you… this (former) jobseeker in London. 

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The 10-day good news challenge, Day 3

Posted on January 23, 2015 by

Welcome to Day 3 of the 10-day Good News Challenge..in today’s edition: “How about a superhero who has a beard and a turban and fights intolerance?”  “We put people in brackets of Muslims, Jews, right wing, left wing. I want … Continue reading →

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Let’s clear this up right now…

Posted on January 23, 2015 by

With regards to my “Mental health and language learning” post… -I did not write the original post; I just shared it. -I was never actually published in the Guardian -I never actually intended to pass myself off as having written … Continue reading →

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The 10-day good news challenge, day 2

Posted on January 22, 2015 by

Here you go! Ojibway boxer inspires students to keep fighting Sierra Leone schools, closed for 8 months due to Ebola crisis,  to reopen in March And a reader submission from Denis Leblanc at 76Crimes: LGBTI activists optimistic about new Sri … Continue reading →

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The 10-day good news challenge

Posted on January 21, 2015 by

It doesn’t take a depressive episode these days to realize that the world is screwed up. If I was writing this post in French I would use the words bâclé, foiré, mêlé, magané, fucké, bousillé, à l’envers. Economic inequality at its highest … Continue reading →

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Mental health and language learning in The Guardian

Posted on January 18, 2015 by

Originally posted on The Compassionate Language Learner:
… I can’t believe I can even write this sentence, but: my article, “Learning a language helps me talk back to the voice of depression”, is now live on the Guardian’s language-learning site!…

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