Of Halloween, the strange and the unusual

"I, myself, am strange and unusual."

And that was something I identified in myself at a very early age: when I was just a kid, and I watched the movie Beetlejuice for the first time, and I completely fell in love with it! I started dressing as Lidia, and I actually cut my hair like her, a memory that haunts me to this day because it was hideous (I didn't know back then that they have "people" to make her look beautiful; and I didn't have "people"). The movie is great: it is funny, colorful, fast-paced, full of action; Tim Burton at his best!

But that was in the late 80's, early 90's. Movies back then were much, much different than they are today. 

Of bullying and resilience

There has been a recent avalanche of news related to bullying around me. Teachers, students, even my family; suddenly bullying is a big deal, and a serious issue.

Nothing new here: it has always happened and it has always been serious. But why are people all of a sudden aware of it?