When I was teenager, I experienced significant hardships. I lost my father aged 13. At 16 I was homeless, slept in the church for weeks and later in a slum for some years. At 17, I was a near-school dropout. I borrowed uniforms at high school. Hunger was my norm. […]
In the last three months, a lot has changed in my life and family; from moving countries (again), to starting a new business, changing and embracing new family routines and building new relationships — it’s hard to ignore the fact that after four awesome years in Germany, my routines are changing, yet again. […]
In 2014, my blog was visited tens of thousands of times by readers from 144 countries, including Suriname, a South America country I never knew existed. It’s more than numbers What makes the stats meaningful is not the numbers but the lives they represent. If there’s one thing that inspires me to keep writing, it’s […]