Pain is weakness leaving the body. I immediately liked this sentence as soon as I read it. Isn't it so true? During the first lock-down, I started to work out following some YouTube videos that I find really helpful and motivating. During the exercises, they also give you many pieces of advice concerning a healthy diet, useful habits and motivating sentences. Well, everyone needs them, isn't it true?

An unreal Sunday Today I walked my dog. But maybe I'd better say my dog walked me. Yes, because of the SARS CoV 2, better known as coronavirus, people can go outside only for important things, for going to work if they can't work at home,for buying food (only food shops are open) and only few people can enter a shop at the same time, for giving care to old people and to walk your dog, but you have to stay near your house and far from other people. So, thank to my dog, I walked a little bit and looked around me. It was so strange the silent I heard. There were very few people, most of them with their dogs, they kept a big distance between one to each other. Usually on Sunday there are many people outside, many children playing in the park very near my home and you can hear the children's joy bursting in the air. Not in these days .Only spring doesn't know the new laws and act as every year does. You can admire the blooming of the flowers everywhere, also in my garden and it makes me regret I haven't buy new plants for gardening in my free time. Our habits have changed so much and I hope everything will soon return to the normality. Greetings from Italy.

The sandwich generation I recently skyped with an American friend of mine. We discussed about the sandwich generation. Well, I don't know if it makes sense to you. The sandwich generation is mine. In fact I am between an elder one, my mother who lives with me and whom I care about, and a younger one, my children who give me a lot of hard work and worries, although they are growing up or maybe just for that. I haven't ever heard about this way to call it but it really works, in my opinion.

Lose or loose? Maybe I was wrong, but I thought the correct one was LOOSE. Today I read LOSE in my son's book. Since I see both of them in the dictionary, maybe there is a difference between British and American English form?

My son's birthday Today my youngest son turns 13. I took a day off work to prepare a delicious lunch for him and some sweets to celebrate his birthday. When this morning he realized I wasn't going to work and I explained him that I was going to stay home because of his birthday, he told me that he should have stayed home and not going to school, it was his birthday, not mine. 😉

Parkour I'm right now in a gym, because my youngest son is trying a parkour lesson. It's nearly two hours that he's running, jumping, climbing and so on but he doesn't give up, yet, he has got so much energy, yet. Wednesday night was the only free night of the week, the only one when nobody in our family has any activity. But I'm using the past tense because it’s clear that Riccardo loves this sport, he has been asking to try it for long time and it's a pleasure to watch him to enjoy so much. Goodbye quite Wednesday nights.

Why is she using WILL in this sentence? "Explain to me why when John is home, the dogs will sleep in until almost 7:00 but when he is gone they are up at 5 or 5:30 EVERY morning!" I would have written: "...the dogs sleep.." and also "...John is AT home..." Thank you.

How to help an 18 year old boy to drive interested in English language? I’m looking for a method for making my son appreciate English. He really needs to improve the language but I don’t know how to help him. I love English, skyping and doing language exchange, but my son doesn't. He prefers reading. The only time he chose English was when he wanted read a book but it hasn't been translated yet. Has someone any ideas? Thank you for your corrections and any ideas you can suggest.

Sometimes videogames help to learn English Some days ago I skyped with an American friend of mine. My son has to pass an English exam next week, so lately I tried to make him to participate in our talks a little bit. He isn't good at English and he doesn't like to talk very much, but he likes my friend, who is very good in making him to talk. That time he surprised me, because he knew many words that I didn't. Our conversation was about what we had done that day. I was trying to explain we have been putting in order our garage, and that my son made a panel where hanging work tools like wrenches (a curiousity: do you know we call them CHIAVI INGLESI? Letteraly ENGLISH KEYS. I don't know why...), screwdrivers and so on. I don't usually talk about these things, so I didn't know their names at all! But he often plays videogames and especially likes a game called minecraft, where he creates a lot of buildings, but for doing that, he has to buy material and tools. So, sometimes also videogames are useful in learning a language.