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joshua-keidan's picture
Oct.18.2012
My first real test of Hebrew, my second language, was a matter of life or death. At the time I didn’t have the opportunity to point this out to my professor, who promise this would never be the case to a scared college sophomore struggling to put the sounds of the language in a pattern that would...
christopher-meeks's picture
Mar.21.2010
One of the happy accidents in my life was when the chair of the Santa Monica College English Department, Nina Theiss, had called me out of the blue and asked if I’d consider teaching English at the college. She said she’d heard I was a great teacher, and I had been recommended by a colleague. That...