A number of my classes are deep in the jobs and professions topic area. So, to give them some vocabulary homework that they don't mind doing, I made another puzzle.

For normal, healthy people, a virus is usually a short term illness. You feel terrible for a few days, and perhaps take a week to recover. For people with other health 'complications', viruses can stick around and make a difficult situation much harder to deal with.

We all have huge language goals and feel too time-poor to chase after them. But you can slot in language learning and make progress with some of these useful language learning hacks.

Word games, quizzes, puzzles and crosswords are a good way to work on vocabulary.

Idioms are a great way to increase enthusiasm and interest in learning a language.

Another birthday has passed, and not much has happened on the endometriosis/adenomyosis front.

Word games and brainstorms, quizzes, puzzles and crosswords are a good way to work on vocabulary.

Trips to aquariums and zoos are popular with school-age kids and adults. They are also fantastic for tourists to practice their language skills.

After my hysterectomy, I was so happy to be able to get off Visanne after a year of being on it. Although the side effects didn't seem to be too severe while I was taking Visanne, one of them was - the extreme cystic acne.

After seeing another specialist surgeon, this time a bowel endometriosis specialist in Berlin, we've decided to stop Lupron treatments early. It did not control the endometriosis or stop the bleeding from my bowel.