Today’s post is an arti­cle writ­ten by Gor­don Man­ley, one of my stu­dents at the Inter­na­tional School of Brus­sels. In it he shares his insights into pop cul­ture, moral­ity and the oblig­a­tions of pub­lic life. I watched Tiger Woods’ apol­ogy the other day, and I have to say I was dumb­struck by one of his comments. […]

Our names short­hand the dis­cov­er­ies we make in life –the way we saw it along the paths we trav­elled. The phrase by which we are called will ring our truth, the shape of a life in gestalt. A word or two or maybe more will pull together the mean­ing that was truest to our hearts. […]

I am by day a mild-mannered Econ­o­mist, qui­etly cor­rect­ing stu­dents’ sup­ply and demand dia­grams, dis­cussing the long-term profit pos­si­bil­i­ties in oli­gop­o­lies. But by night, I get to pur­sue my real pas­sion in life: surf­ing –both chan­nel and web. Some­times I do both at once! So I live a pretty full exis­tence. Some­times on my quests, […]

These ‘’Com­mand­ments’’ are actu­ally just life  lessons. They are reminders to myself about my favorite insights into how to keep myself happy and mov­ing for­ward. 1) A clear tar­get I’ve found it’s not enough to try hard, if you’re not work­ing toward a clear out­come. Every­one says this, but I like it because, if I’ve […]

Seth Men­achem is an LA direc­tor who, in his spare time, asks elderly strangers for advice. I grew up far away from my grand­par­ents and I’ve lived over­seas, away from my own par­ents, for a long time. Maybe this is why I love these clips from Life Advice from Old peo­ple. These are two of my […]

Nain is the Welsh word for grand­mother. My nain Gwenda Thain was born on this day in 1922. In hon­our of her birth­day, I’d like to share some of her advice about life: