Nothing makes me sadder than paying attention to what’s going on sometimes. There are some great things going on in the world. However, it should be apparent to most that there appears to be a state of flux. Millions a … Read More

Albert Einstein is often quoted for having come up with a pretty good definition of insanity. He said that it’s doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. As I look around at the state … Read More

I kind of like popular psychology. I don’t mean reading an industrial-sized textbook that weighs a tonne, but the simple explanations that nicely explain behavior. In many ways, humans are complex creatures, but in other ways we trend in very … Read More

I get a lot of questions and by far the most common is this: “I’d love to join you out there in Thailand but I have no idea where to start….” Trust me, I get this attitude. There’s so much … Read More

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months then world events are increasingly raising eyebrows. While in Thailand things are returning to normal, in the East of Europe things seem to be deteriorating. How far they … Read More

I overtook a Ferrari today… OK, so it was inching forward in slow moving traffic outside the mall. It wasn’t an old one, or some cheap copy kit-car. It was a brand spanking new (gleam still on the paint), original … Read More

Sometimes it doesn’t feel like it but education is a lifetime process. Once people leave the education system, there’s a tendency to think that the learning process is over, it’s over and done with. Most of the people I talk … Read More

The world is always changing. …always has, always will. Sometimes it’s for the better, and sometimes it’s for the worse. The great writer Ernest Hemingway was once asked how he went bankrupt. His response has now entered folklore… “Two ways, … Read More

I was scootering along the other side of town fairly recently when right in front of my eyes something happened that rather typifies the way things work in Thailand. I was running a small errand and ended up right behind … Read More

While poking around social media the other day, I came across more than one post showing the increasing frequency of crime in many Western countries. You’ve probably seen them yourself and wondered, like me, where this is all heading. Sometimes … Read More