Musing Interruptus

Hello and welcome, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it,...

Hello, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more imp...

Hello, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcript is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic phrases are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantl...

Hello, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic phrases are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importa...

Hello, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic phrases are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importa...

Welcome, I am Renée Valentina, and this is Musing Interruptus; a podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic phrases are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more imp...

Hello and welcome. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus , a podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along, the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic phrases are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to...

Hello and welcome. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus , a podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along, the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic phrases are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. What a year. That was rough.  I catch myself saying, that is a me problem. I am always surprised when someone says, no, that is a we problem. Unexpected softness. We all know how rough it can get. Being fortunate doesn’t just mean enjoying the good things, it also means having the ability to see the s...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus, thank you for clicking, and thank you for listening. I’m Renée Valentina and this is my podcast. I write this for my students, my friends, and basically anyone who would like to continue the conversation. You can listen and read along. The link to the transcript is in the description of the episode.  I’ve been thinking about the fish and the bird that...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. I’m Renée Valentina and this is my podcast. I write this for my students, my friends, and anyone who would like to listen to silly diatribes about life and my imagination, and maybe even chime in. I love when you answer my questions and express what you think about different situations. If you have me in t...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. I think it is safe to say, it is time to put up the Christmas tree . While some say that it should happen around the first week of December, I say, why? - Just, why? Well, you’ve caught me, I’m not the most Christmassy of folks. I won’t go into it, I’ll just say, there are more of us, and I’ll speak for my...

Hello, welcome to Musing Interruptus, thank you for clicking and thank you for listening.  I did the Spotify wrapped for podcasters and was humbled and surprised. You are out there, listening, there are people who I don’t know and people who I do know. Thank you for subscribing.  But specially, thank you for continuing the conversation. Since April 30th, 2021, I’ve written and podcasted...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Storytime. You may not know this, but our dear Lorena once had herself a dear John, destination is more than decreed in the phrasing. Before they met, a few things had to happen. Some transformative. The kind of things that leave the soul heavier. Today, it is all about John. John never gets to play. His one-track mind puts off any kind of real enjoyment until he has...

Elasticity took over the house. Walls elongated and shrunk. Music had a new quality to it, a deepness and hollowness all at the same time.  —Hey man, he called out to his friend, I can feel my blood pressure going down. Or is it up? My heart speeds up a bit, then I notice it and I get a little lightheaded. –Dude, answered Jack, What the hell are you talking about? It’s time for Musing Interru...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Today, a tale as old as time. The monster under the bed. Talk about strange bedfellows. Be forewarned. When I was born, my monster was born. Sleeping under my crib and then under my bed. When the space under the bed was too tight, my monster moved to the closet. We grew up together. When I learned to read, he demanded I read him bedtime stories, demanded co...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. We are all about the harvest season. The hard work that was done all year should provide sustenance. Oh dearest, it is possible it hasn’t, crops can be damaged, livelihoods ruined. A sentence versed in games of probability. Live or die, others will go on. That is designed perfectly. It is a requirement, an...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. There is a difference between showing your affection because, it exudes out of your pores, creating a halo of adoration, unequivocally so, and showing affection as a way to receive affection. There is an ego push, relentless, disconnected, intermittent, and unsustainable. The ulterior motive defines how se...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. If you like this podcast and think someone else might like it, please feel free to share. Also, I love when you continue the conversation. You can leave a voice message on the Anchor website or write to me via Lucid Communication Academy’s Facebook or Instagram pages. That is one of the purposes of Musing...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. How have you been? I’ve missed the sight of you, an absurd thing to say when writing a podcast episode, especially this one, which is only audible. Absurd. It feels good to identify the absurd . It feels like a discovery unlocked by a key known as, I’m smarter than you. Or so you thought! Today on Musing I...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus, thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. Pull up a seat next to me. I’ve been wanting to go off on a rant for some time, I have been dancing around the topic of resilience. According to Diane Coutu (2018, p.11), a super expert… most theories on resilience enunciate three characteristics shared by people who are resilient: an obstinate acceptance of reality...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, and thank you for listening. Writers get hired to do all sorts of interesting things. The first time I was hired to write, I was in high school. I wrote love letters. Needless to say, everything started out well, the objective was achieved, I hit that target, right between the eyes … but then something went wrong. Call it human error or human...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. Today we have a story on our hands . Believe me when I say this, it is inconsequential and completely made up . Trust me. However, hopefully, you will get some nifty idiomatic phrases out of this. What do I get out of this, you ask? What don’t I get out of this … I love doing this. So, pull up a chair or put on your wa...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Youth is a wonderful thing, changing in your hands, evolving and why not, aging. One day, as I looked in the mirror, I realized it was left behind yesterday. That is ok. Rightly so, there is no turning back here. My friend Ale reminded me, you will never be this young again. There are certain activities associated with youth, a mindset whose true north is freedom, co...

Hello, you are listening to Musing Interruptus. What would the wicked witch of the story do on a Sunday evening?  Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all… I say them because I am a whole other can of worms. Emphasis on the worms. Squirmy, slimy worms. Protein-filled worms. Transformative little buggers. Aren’t we all what we eat? I’d like to be an eagle, soar through the ai...