BobMarzewski

I’m a  supporter of Ukraine. I’ve donated money to send trucks, drones and first aid, but can’t make any significant change with the few Euros that I can afford to donate. I started offering a different kind of support in February when I joined an organization called Balakun. balakun.org

be useful in conversations. It may also help me understand the issues my students are having learning a new language. The world seems a chaotic place these days and it feels like there is little that can be done as an individual. Balakun has been giving me an opportunity to meet people from around

I’m a  supporter of Ukraine. I’ve donated money to send trucks, drones and first aid, but can’t make any significant change with the few Euros that I can afford to donate. I started offering a different kind of support in February when I joined an organization called Balakun. balakun.org

read this far and think this sounds interesting, consider filling out the application mentor on the home page of the link above. It’s simple and asks only a few questions. Shortly after, you will have an online face to face verification interview that will help Balakun match you with a student.

I’m a  supporter of Ukraine. I’ve donated money to send trucks, drones and first aid, but can’t make any significant change with the few Euros that I can afford to donate. I started offering a different kind of support in February when I joined an organization called Balakun. balakun.org

the Balakun web site to  help make lessons to expand my student’s vocabulary. I attend speaking clubs where teachers lead lessons to interested groups of students and teachers.  I use them to help me better teach my students and I pick up tips frequently. There are groups where mentors and mentees

I’m a  supporter of Ukraine. I’ve donated money to send trucks, drones and first aid, but can’t make any significant change with the few Euros that I can afford to donate. I started offering a different kind of support in February when I joined an organization called Balakun. balakun.org

From their site: “Balakun is a bridge between passionate volunteer mentors from around the world and Ukrainians eager to learn or practice English, German, and Spanish, or any other language, creating space for shared learning, conversation, and the exchange of experience.” As a Mentor, I currently

April showers bring May flowers... April is nearly over and rain is brewing overhead. Around our home, the flowers of May have been popping up everywhere. Here are a few.

A couple days ago and hummingbird found its way into our greenhouse but couldn't find its way out. I put a couple hummer feeders near an open window and by the large open door, but when I went back hours later at night it was still there. Couldn't figure out how to free #hummingbird #wildlife

It just kept flying back and forth. In the early morning I went to look for it and found it on a branch of a nasturtium plant, ib the semi comma as they do at night. I cut the branch off and carried it to a heating pad on the back deck. After a few minutes, it started moving slightly and #rescue

April showers have been racing through Northern California with a vengeance for the last week or so, watering the hundreds of plants I've been putting into our raised beds, cloth bags and cardboard boxes during the record breakingly warm spring weather this year! #garden #food

I've already pulled radishes out of the ground and picked a handful of snap peas from 8 foot tall vines in our greenhouse. A dozen summer squashes are nearly big enough to eat, cucumbers are climbing the trellises I set up this year, and some of the corn stalks are

The No Kings rally was well attended in Chico, CA today. Some images follow.

Bottom line: I'm retiring my personal website, wizzard.com, tomorrow after 3 decades and more than a million visitors. (If you want to visit, a screen bigger than your phone is suggested.) ****** The longer version follows here: 30+ years ago, in a down stairs store in Palo Alto, CA we were

introducing the internet to people who were often seeing the web for the first time. I was designing customer webpages that you would laugh at today. By the end of 1994, the internet hosted 2738 web sites. In 1995, when Amazon and AltaVista were started I also started my own site when the number

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans or others who celebrate it! My wife and I dropped off small gifts to our favorite farmer yesterday and he loaded us up with veggies from his greenhouse. As in the past he also used the occasion of our visit to trim off some #food #Thanksgiving

Glass Maps 21: 99.9% done This is the second to last update in this chapter of the building of glass world maps. (I've already printed a smaller map for the next chapter.) Yea; after many delays, re-gluing Hawaii 2 times when I'd bump it trying to clean the map, similar issues #art #sculpture

with the Aleutians, & lots of cleaning. it's finally sealed into its box of glass! It is still horizontal on the table as I'm letting the glue harden for several days before standing it up to finish the last task of cleaning the excess glue from sealing it up. That will take a #art #sculpture

From No Kings rally and march today 18oct25 in Chico, CA. Looked a lot bigger than the first one to me. #no kings #Chico, CA

Glass Maps 19:the Reveal My wife & I bundled up Map B and drove it to Galena, Illinois where we met my brother & his wife who came from the Philadelphia area. My other brother joined us from Michigan. Shortly after we moved our suitcases into a B&B, my brothers brought #Art #Sculpture

the 77lb bundled up map to the kitchen table. Only my wife and I knew what was in the bundle we brought. Here is the the moments of revelation. #Art #Sculpture

Art tour continued. As we left House of Balls (see previous post), Allen's wife told us we should visit another outdoor art sculpture nearby in St. Paul, MN. Raspberry Island Park features #sculpture #art

a few dozen imaginary animals from several Hispanic artists next to the (Mississippi?) river in beautiful grassy Park. Each was surrounded by a rope perimeter that was also landscaped with #art #sculpture

Art tour! When visiting the outdoor sculpture walk yesterday and then talking to the sculptor Wayne about my art at burningman and otherwise he told me YOU HAVE TO GO SEE ALAN! Alan has a studio space in Minneapolis called House of Balls (his early art involved carving bowling #art #sculpture

filled with hundreds of art pieces and seeing everything in the 2 hours we spent with Allen would be impossible. The kinda place that you see something new every time you look again. An added bonus was that it #art #sculpture #travel

Art tour! When visiting the outdoor sculpture walk yesterday and then talking to the sculptor Wayne about my art at burningman and otherwise he told me YOU HAVE TO GO SEE ALAN! Alan has a studio space in Minneapolis called House of Balls (his early art involved carving bowling #art #sculpture