March 3 was World Book Day this year and many schools encourage students to dress up as a favourite character from a book. I was delighted that one young reader dressed as Amanda in Spain! Her aunt sent me a picture. How special is that? I love seeing who children choose to dress up as. […] World Book Day 2022 Continue reading World Book Day 2022
Long time ago, people who sacrificed their sleep, family, food, laughter and other joys of life were called Saints. But now, they are called IT professionals. The cause of people’s unhappiness is sacrificing what they want most for what they want now. Your role may be thankless, but if you’re willing to give it your […] Sacrifices Continue reading Sacrifices
You’re not big, you’re fat. Let’s be slightly more truthful. Sometimes being the bigger person means smiling and nodding while fantasizing about punching the other person in the throat. Not just because they called you fat but because they absolutely deserve it. The truth remains that you’re round around where your edges are supposed to […] The Bigger Person Continue reading The Bigger Person
Moms stay up all night overthinking about their children. A job nobody asked them to do but they brought it upon themselves anyways. What’s worse is that moms get upset that we don’t appreciate the fact that they do this. Like it is somehow our fault. And you know they mean well, they’re just going […] The Joys of Motherhood Continue reading The Joys of Motherhood
It is funny to be a critic. A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run. Ideally, if you can’t cook, you shouldn’t tell people that their food needs salt. A critic like me is doing so anyway. The worst-case scenario is that it’ll be the last time I ever eat your […] Dealing with Criticism Continue reading Dealing with Criticism
My favorite thing to make for dinner is reservations. Who would have thought that boiling eggs and making pap would be so difficult. Making pap is the same as “fighting until you see the light at the end of the tunnel.” You never know if you’ve gotten it right until the end. There’s a key […] Cooking Continue reading Cooking
One thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain. My music taste ranges from “You’ve gotta listen to this” to “I know, please don’t judge me.” A day without music is like…just kidding, I have no idea. When I was a little boy, I told my Dad, ‘When I grow […] The Power of Music Continue reading The Power of Music
My moods don’t just swing. They bounce, pivot, recoil, rebound, oscillate, fluctuate and occasionally pirouette. Men have mood swings. Women have mood leaps, mood swirls and mood loops. You don’t know you could breathe wrong until you’re around a woman with a mood leap. Suddenly you’re being accused of taking in too much oxygen per […] Moods Swinging Continue reading Moods Swinging
My ex girlfriend believed in progress, and thought that humans were on the road to moral perfection. Before she died, she decided that the evidence pointed the other way. We are all hell bent on our own destruction– so full of pointless spite that we’ll blow up the world rather than let some other tribe run it. But I don’t think it’s pointless spite. We … Continue reading My ex believed in progress.
Americans claim to fight for freedom for people around the world, but when we, traditional societies look at them, we don’t see freedom. We see sin and excess. We look at people like Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Michael Moore, Bill Moyers– selfish people who put their own desires for money and celebrity ahead of morality. Freedom to us is totally opposite from the … Continue reading A nation of hypocrisy.
Zealous Thierry 