With Valentine’s Day coming up this weekend, I reminded of an article my Italian foster mom Carol, shared with me a few years back. I really don’t know who wrote it but the meaning reaches deep into the very essence of what it is really all about to make the right choice in our personal [...]
A New Year to start off a New Decade… very exciting! Although I am looking forward to all the possible opportunities it has to offer, I believe in order for me to truly prepare myself for it, I need to reflect back on last year, and recap all the pluses and minuses, and all the [...]
In planning future successes, there is no right or wrong but rather choices made to best address the current situation at hand. Whether there was a lesson to be learned or just another episode of running away from our very own insecurities, only history and hindsight will reveal that to us in due season.
My mom [...]
Unless we live underneath a coconut shell, we will always have an opportunity to meet someone new and especially during this holiday season. This reminded me of what my Malaysian mom Nyah told me a long time ago about her role as a mother. She said being a mom is all about making a positive [...]
One of the toughest things in our lives is to leave past mistakes and missteps as water under the bridge. We cannot just focus on them while we are thinking about designing our future successes.
If we are to move forward in our professional or personal lives, we have to believe that events of the past [...]
During this upcoming holiday season some of us will be meeting new people for the first time and some of us will not necessary be looking forward to meeting the people whom we already knew, but am glad that we will only be in their company once a year.
Regardless whatever situation you are in, have [...]
Some of us already realize this, and others will experience it for the first time: The kitchen will be the most important room in the house in the coming weeks.
Regardless of whether it is a modern-day designer’s kitchen or just one of the so-called “timeless” efficiency kitchens, it is time for it to claim center [...]
My Malaysian mom Nyah, always said that during the challenging times of our lives is when our character is built, and we are getting stronger from the inside out. Everything has a season. Everything has its time.
My late Southern Belle mom Eleanora, always reminded me over the years that life is not always as smooth [...]
My late Sanguine Savannahan mom Joni, once told me that each one of us has an outer life and an inner life. The outer life is our public life that everyone can see. It is made up of social interactions, whereas our inner life is made up of our thoughts, our attitudes, and our motives.
Only [...]
Recently a business associate commented that he has always noticed that whenever I take on a new project I always have a lot of passion to go along with it.
He reminded me of what I learned from my Malaysian mom Nyah, a long time ago. She taught me how to have heart in everything I [...]