My one regret: I didn’t interview Maya Angelou when I had the chance.
When I look at this picture of myself, my eyes, what I see emanating from them is my curious spirit encouraged by Maya Angelou’s autobiographies and poems.
My life hasn’t quite turned out as I had thought it would have. But even so, I don’t have regrets with the exception of one. In my twenties I had…
The last four months have been crazy; crazy doesn’t even adequately describe all that has been happening. COVID-19 has forced us to be home, sit still, or binge watch movies, TV shows, YouTube, listen to podcasts, teach/entertain our children – at the moment content is king. I admit, COVID-19 has caused some personal anxiety, and is devastating for those who have lost their lives and…
By Lisa Chin Quee
Valentines Day: the most romantic day of the year – “most” in the sense of thousands of couples showing their adoration for each other on the official day of love. But as we all know, celebrating your love can happen any day of the year! Romance is more romantic when it’s unexpected.
Roses, chocolates, special dinners are all traditional ways of honoring your special…
Traveling is one of my favourite things to do. It is one of the best forms of education – you learn first hand about other cultures, foods, politics, religions and social mores; in true context. Instead of repeating what I’ve stated in other posts about travel, I’ve taken the following from a piece I wrote nine years ago, 2010 – It’s Your Year. Do You. No Apologies; because my…
So I was at the gym, and saw one of the staff members, Michael wearing two different florescent shoes on each foot. I assumed maybe, it was a new trend by Nike. I reasoned, if the colours were so bold, then going that extra step to have two different colours wasn’t so far out there. I thought nothing more of it and continued my workout.
Then, I overheard one of the other members…
It is 2010! Can you believe it? I can hardly believe that a decade has gone by already. It feels like it was yesterday that we were preparing for the anticipated catastrophes leading into Y2K – people were concerned about the technical glitches. My computer programmer friends were earning big bucks for their skills. Wow, how things have changed. We made it through, not just that year but the…
