matilda36

Once upon a time when I was stressed, I used to eat. Once upon a time when panic started to rise, I used to reach for chocolate, I used to drink coffee to shore the waves of my dark moods.

Now I study Grammar. I started by chance, when I started to teach English and I realised that i needed a sound grasp on both Italian and English grammars, so I started refreshing my knowledge, deepening it to find new and better ways to understand and to teach.

With time it has become a calming ritual.

II have always looked to books for answers, trying to understand the conventions of social life that keep smiling at me from just out of reach, so it's probably a natural progression that now I seek those same answers from grammar, the study of conventions that rule human communications and hence human social interactions.

I have been lucky and studied Latin and Ancient Greek when i was a teenager and my teacher was a very intimidating woman with a light in her eyes every time she spoke about Greek Literature. She made me understand the importance of Etymology, the precious insights that words, their history and evolution can give us on the world in which we live. As Nanni Moretti said: Those who speak badly, think badly

So in an attempt to think right, I learn how to write and teach right.