I had an interesting time this month. I received a cheque in the post from Google for £60. It’s taken me a few years but it was generated from this blog. It did make me think: could I write some stuff here that could generate enough interest to make some money? It’s an interesting questionContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: April 2012”
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JDS Insights: March 2012
Hard Sell This post is not *trying* to sell you anything. But I do acknowledge the self-indulgent nature of blogging and my own self-interest. So sometimes I will sell something: a book, an idea, a particular paradigm – whatever. But make no mistake – I am selling it. There are openings for action on myContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: March 2012”
JDS Insights: February 2012
Perhaps the fact I’m getting round to putting down what February was all about towards the end of March speaks to what a non-month February usually is. If January is post-apocalyptic, then February is the deadly silence that follows the post-apocalyptic trauma. And so it should be as we slowly emerge from Winter and moveContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: February 2012”
JDS Insights: January 2012
I think January of every year has a post-apocalyptic feel to it. It’s as if we’re emerging from the remains of something to create something else. The whirlwind of December meant my January felt relatively sedate: back to school; mock exams; marking…and well embracing how mundane life really is. It just feels like a l-o-o-o-o-n-gContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: January 2012”
JDS Insights: December 2011
My December threw up a lot.* I hope you get something from reading this (rather long) post. —– December 3rd, very early in the morning, my Father-in-law passed away. I was there. It was something that was quick and slow at the same time. He’d been pretty ill for a number of years, including beingContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: December 2011”
JDS Insights: November 2011
Catching up slowly but surely! November had a four memorable areas: 1) school, 2) chocolate and exercise, 3) closure and clarity and 4) alcohol.* —– 1) School Building on the book I read in October: I had some interesting feedback in November. My Sixth Form Pupils said comments like: “The lessons are much better becauseContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: November 2011”
JDS Insights: October 2011
I’m aware that it’s Christmas Eve…and I’m posting about stuff that happened months ago. But a lot has happened in those months. Re-reading the insights for October and I’m instantly transported to my state of mind back then. The big thing was my birthday. This year on October 3rd I turned 35 years old. AtContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: October 2011”
JDS Insights: September 2011
It’s been a while. September was back to school…for someone like me. Teachers approach the new school year in a variety of ways…but perhaps mostly with trepidation at the impending tiredness, late nights and the deeper appreciation of weekends. Since returning to school and listening to the grapevine I’ve got the impression that a fewContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: September 2011”
JDS Insights: August 2011
August for a teacher really means one thing: Summer Holidays. Although it didn’t feel so much like that for me for several reasons. I didn’t go away anywhere on holiday (combined with being in and out of school) and I managed to sprain my ankle quite badly doing Urban Krav Maga. I suppose it comesContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: August 2011”
JDS Insights: July 2011
Truthfully…the stuff that comes out as insights arrives in fits and starts. Some of what I’ve written for July relates to events that happened in August. You might pick up on it. Otherwise, school ended and July saw me take a dive into the mess and melee that is my cultural community: the Goan Diaspora.ContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: July 2011”
James D'Souza 