And an old Crown doesn’t fail — Republished with corrections and the right video. They had been seeing each other for months. She, half past three in the afternoon on a hot day, in a red strapless dress with yellow boas, a flared skirt just below her knees, yellow sandals, was next to him, a light blue…

E coroa velha não falha — Estavam se encontrando há meses. Ela, três e meia da tarde de dia de calor, de vestido tomara-que-caia vermelho com boás amarelas, saia rodada pouco abaixo dos joelhos, sandália amarela, estava perto dele, camisa azul claro, jeans e sapa tênis, que conversava com duas senhoras à porta de uma galeria. …

A practical pedagogy tip for learning German — By Sonaira D’Ávila, at https://www.doriopraca.com/ I swear that in these comings and goings from Rio to here (living from sun to sun) six months in Rio and six in Germany, I keep trying to understand the language and grammar for myself, first to learn and then not to forget. When…

Uma dica de pedagogia prática para aprender alemão — Por Sonaira D’Ávila, no site https://www.doriopraca.com/ Juro, que nestas minhas indas e vindas do Rio pra cá (vivendo de Sol a Sol) seis meses no Rio e seis na Alemanha, fico tentando entender a língua e a gramática pra mim mesma, primeiro pra aprender, e depois pra não esquecer. Quando…

Text by Tatiana Bruscky, Pernambuco doctor — A history of the public health service in Brazil; probably applicable to other countries. Today I woke up feeling a little pain, a pain without explanation and a throb! I decided to look for a doctor. I was rambling along the way, and I remembered that doctor who served me…

Texto de Tatiana Bruscky, médica pernambucana — Hoje acordei sentindo uma dorzinha… Aquela dor sem explicação e uma palpitação! Resolvi procurar um doutor… Fui divagando pelo caminho… Lembrei daquele médico que me atendia vestido de branco e que para mim, tinha um pouco de pai, um pouco de amigo e de anjo… Meu doutor…que curava a minha…

Thanx to Ginuschuks Okonkwo- Hyginus Okwuchukwu Okonkwo and Ann James, for having read and illuminated paragraphs!

All dark! — I had a vision, maybe I saw it and, much sleepy, just came back to sleep: a hooded man was knocking on the doors of the houses in my street; if someone opened the door, he stuck his foot in the gap, went in and quickly went out with something…

The ones and the others — Nonwoven fabric is similar to fabric, but it is not a fabric. It’s not like the story of the blind man who bumped into something that looked like a lion, smelled like a lion, had a lion’s mane, a lion’s tail, roared like a lion and… it really was a…