Author: Mia Winhertt

Fellow bloggers, how do you decide which topic to write on? Isn't that usually the most difficult part of any kind of written piece? That is because once that hurdle is passed, the rest becomes relatively easy. So how do you decide? Is it what you enjoy the most or don't? Is it what you [...]

"Yet another seminar..." thought Mia in low spirits. Mia was usually fine with sitting through seminars. But it was the character of that particular kind of seminars that she did not like. The one which was about to take place was one of the many that her school had organised to help teenagers come of [...]

English and Mathematics are very different subjects. Even the parts of our brain that are active for the two are different. Yet there is a certain math that is involved in any language and that includes English. This is called grammar. It is these set of rules that set a degree of restraint for the [...]

We have all seen both the talkers and the quiet. Depending on our luck, we might have come across too many or too few of any one kind. While the talkers find the quiet difficult to understand, weird or at times even rude, the quiet fully reciprocate their feelings! But I will let you in [...]

Very often, when someone is too particular about the correct usage of a language, they are labelled as Grammar Nazis. Many people find them extremely irritating and they have their reasons for it. After all, this is the age of technology where almost everyone is using all kind of shortcuts in order to text faster. Almost [...]

Remember those episodes on Friends named The One That Could Have Been: Parts 1 and 2? That is where the central six characters wonder how different their lives would have been if they had taken essentially different decisions than what they actually had at critical points in their lives. The good part was that, as they realized at the end [...]

There she was, a thirteen year old, knowing with her whole heart what she wanted to do her whole life. She could not wait to tell her mother. When she did, this is how her mother responded. Standing in stark contrast to her excitement was the adult's expression. No, it was not bewilderment or disappointment. [...]

There is something about beginnings. They bring about a flush of feelings like no other. It does not matter if the beginning is a small or big one. It does not matter if its place of being is known or absolutely foreign. It does not even matter if everybody knows about it or just nobody [...]