This particular Memorial Day weekend, far away from home, I found myself standing next to my comatose mother in a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh struggling for her life.
It is in the overcrowded and struggling streets of Dhaka, where she taught me to deal with life’s adversity as she took me to school every day riding on rickshaws....
“Courage is the quality most essential to understand the language of the world.” - Paulo Coelho
It was a cold brisk Friday in Copenhagen. I decided to take a little detour…to visit a dear old friend in the Swedish village of Lagan…
I met her some twenty plus years ago in Minnesota in the midst of another winter....
After a long week, on Friday night I was laying down in bed with my eyes closed. As my wife does quite often, at one point she started reading out loud an article from this week’s Newsweek magazine. For nearly twenty years, she has always managed to find exactly the right inspiration for me whenever I run out of fuel.
This particular...
‘Hey, don’t let anyone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me, alright? You got a dream, you got to protect it! People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period!’ - From the movie
Pursuit of HappynessTwenty-three years ago, it was...
My Dear Little Angel,
A couple of months ago, while watching
Star Wars together for the very first time, you asked me – “Baba, how do you know who is good and who is evil?”.
Since then, I have been pondering your simple question...
While gazing upon Camelback Mountain in Arizona, while traveling through the French...
