I’m not as nice as some people think. I’m also not always a jerk, like some other people think. I’m both. Grumpy and Nice. Mean and kind. Rarely at the same time. But frequently close together. This weekend, someone parked in front of my driveway. They were waiting for someone. I could have ignored it…
One of my favourite lines from the show MASH is when Frank Burns says: It’s nice to be nice to the nice. The funny thing is that I saw that episode almost fifty years ago. And yet the line remains in my memory. Popping up now and then, bringing a smile to my face. The…
It was the summer of 1981. I was eighteen years old. My dad had got me a job at a French restaurant called Au Cepage. Which was cool because I had been to France the year before and fell in love with French food. My job was a prep chef or cook’s assistant. I chopped…
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