Language Learning: Are you overestimating your fluency?
I remember a story my mom once told me many years ago. She was sitting at the airport, waiting for her connecting flight when a man walked up to her and asked if she could speak French…
Work Life: Taking time out for cupcakes
I haven’t actively posted for a few days mostly because I’ve been trying to get those last few articles out the door before the end of the year. But I do hope to change that come 2012. Giving this blog a little more loving, that is. My mind is filled with so many ideas, unwritten stories, photo archives, and work projects, and I’m looking forward to picking that focus word for 2012.
Work Life: Are you always thinking one step ahead?
This post isn’t about staying one step ahead of your purported “competition” as I personally feel your biggest competition should be yourself and not someone else who is living a totally different calling from yours.
Postcard: Hanging offline with friends
I’ve spent the last two weeks offline a lot. On one hand, feverishly writing articles and trying to meet a few back-to-back deadlines before year’s end, but on the more important hand, hanging out with friends, trying different restaurants and cafes and fulfilling what I’d set out to do a lot more of this year – spend more quality time offline.
Blog Action Day: Did you know famine is man-made?
In honor of World Food Day (Oct. 16) and Blog Action Day which is focusing on “Food” this year, I wanted to quickly point you all to two awareness pieces. Interview with Free The Children I recently did an interview with Craig Kielburger, co-founder of the nonprofit Free The Children on what is truly going …
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Expat life: Notes on finding tastes of home
It took me almost two years of living in Sweden to realize that I wasn’t raised on cream-based sauces. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been feverishly shopping for anything that could be used in a pot of African stew. I’ve traversed Stockholm hitting some of my pseudo-African/Ethnic joints to pick up yams, ripe plantains, …