A personal look at my journey to stoicism and how I didn’t so much choose it but was inevitably drawn to it. I didn’t know my maternal...

“Solidarité” is one of those curious terms that – although it translates word-for-word into English – is just far more common in French.

Another look at false friends and misleading mates.

In this third instalment of my series on worrisome, wearying words I want to look at “ intervenant ”. Larousse provides the following...

The curious case of "animer”: A common word with a surprisingly elusive meaning.

Like any translator, I sometimes come across terms that make me hesitate between two (or more) potential interpretations.

"... not everyone has the time to cook two nutritionally balanced meals a day..."

The rentrée has caused me to reflect on the impact that the pandemic will have on the management of infectious diseases.

Most of our decisions and opinions are not the consequence of mature reflection and a cool cost-benefit analysis.

One of Buddhism’s key insights is that much of the suffering in the world comes from people not seeing reality as it really is.

Ecologists point the finger at agriculture for its environmental impact, but soil conservation farming could have a massive role to play.

The notion that a group of 99 women and 1 man should be referred to as “ils” never sat well with me.