The 3 Pigs

The day had finally come. The three little pigs were finally moving out. They finished loading the last of their things on the moving truck. They hugged their mom goodbye and left to go to their new homes.  They went to the first pig’s house. It was in rough condition. It was a fixer upper …

5 Things we Forget Change in Time

Humans are interesting creatures. We have advanced so much in our short time on this planet. As we grow as a society, time teaches us so many things. The interesting thing about this is that we continue to do the same things over and over again like it’s the first time. Even when we did …

5 Ways Aging has Affected Me

Back in the 90’s a popular song by the late Aaliyah, “Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number” was a hit. This was a line that was said so much in my younger years that I grew to be so annoyed at the statement. It held some truth, you are as old as you feel. We …

5 Ways Education has Changed

I was talking to a student the other day and we had an interesting conversation. The topic of discipline in schools came up. Another teacher mentioned how in China they were very strict about discipline and still believed in capital punishment in some schools. I recall my uncle telling me when he worked in Dubai …

Failure

Yamcha epicly failing. Dragon Ball Z We fail everyday. To me, life is literally a bunch of failures we have strung together and just made the best of the situation. We made cars and after about 100 years of industry we finally admit they are killing the earth. We made factories to make the cars …

The Ant and the Grasshopper

One day there was an ant 🐜 collecting food. He and his family worked hard collecting food every year before winter. “Hey Ben, what you up to today”. Ben looked back at him, “Really, you know what I’m doing, collecting food, you comedian. Are you that bored, I know what you can do?”. Anthony looked …

Journey of the Mind: The Blame Game

I recently got my psych evaluation. I will not divulge the full eval but I can tell you I have situational Anxiety to the point of Mania and Depression. When I heard this report I was like, “Yea, that makes sense”. So who did this to me? Who helped me to be like this? How …

Journey of the Mind: Long road to recovery

Pic of character owned by marvel About a year ago I wrote a piece about suicide, inspired by a father who came and talked to the students at the school I work at. Since then my life has not been a fairy tale. It has been a roller coaster with twist turns loops and I …

The Scorpion and The Frog

Frogs, SMH!

Another Look: Gemini Man

During Covid 2: Rollercoaster, the sequel to Covid 1: Toilet Paper Crisis, I had a minute to watch some movies. I didn’t before because of work or just total lack of movie selections. I remember being at home during Covid 1, it was … interesting. Now that the numbers of cases have gone up and …