Life

Character often reveals itself in private: in the choices we make when there is no audience and no…

Have you ever been lucky enough to be invited to a birthday, a celebratory occurrence in the form…

I arrived at my favorite coffee shop on Monday morning to get my go-to latte with honey. As…

When there is no salt on the road and there is no rain in the sky, you can…

My hands were shaking. Not gently, properly, visibly shaking.  I was standing on a small stage in a…

I once heard that life is like an ocean, and people on it are either sails or anchors.…

Talking with elderly people always sparks thoughts in me. A constant one is trying to imagine what the…

The embarkation hall at Cape Town’s Robben Island Museum waterfront was crowded. Queues of tourists moved steadily, waving…

I have spent much of my life chasing. Chasing the next grade, the next weekend, the next milestone.…

It was a hot, humid mid-July morning in Hanoi. Ninety plus degrees mixed with 95% humidity meant that…