A BIRTHDAY LETTER

A birthday letter to my sensitive, curious, loyal, kind and full of energy 8 year old.

MATTHEW SHEPARD

December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998 When I moved to America, in October of 1998, the hot topic on our local news (Colorado) was the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, just north of Denver. I was absolutely riveted by this news story. As a recent immigrant, this was not a side […]

APPLE & STEVE

The world lost an amazing visionary today. Rest in peace Steve Jobs. The year was 1996. I had graduated from computer engineering school and unlike most of my peers, spent the next few months at my parent’s house, not chasing a job (and unlike some of my peers, no job was chasing me either). Β Sheer […]

OCTOBER

October always seems to be the busiest, craziest month of the year for me. September is the end of summer. November is the beginning of winter. October, like Goldilocks in the Three Bears says, is jussssst right. Not too warm. Not too cold. And it always reminds me of that one amazing day, in the […]