Last night, as I was scrolling through my twitter feed, I came across the first news of the attack in Mississauga at an Indian restaurant.

People sitting, celebrating two birthdays, when two covered up men (with light skin apparently) arrived and set off an improvised explosive device!

Subhan Allah! What are things coming to?

And then news of a student in Indiana who shot up the school and two people are wounded.

There are days when I just want to turn off the news.

I remember reading articles before Trump got elected in which Tony Schwartz, the guy who wrote The Art of the Deal warned that with Trump would come chaos, and that’s exactly what it feels like.

May God preserve us! May God help us!

May God inspire to write something that helps stop this madness.

Sometimes I wonder if the next generation didn’t get enough moral training through religion.

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism, you name it, all the faiths preach self-restraint, doing good unto others as you would have them do unto you!

Maybe in our quest to make education so entertaining, at the risk of being didactic we’ve lost the need to keep some of the messages.

But there are good books out there! One of my favorites is Martha Doesn’t Say Sorry. The funny thing about the book is that it’s a natural evolution of a little girl who eventually does say sorry and even though it can be considered avowedly didactic, my grandkids would often ask to read it, and enjoyed it!

I want my work to do good like that!