Yesterday I wrote about raising strawberries. Not the ones at the supermarket, but the ones we have apparently been growing at home. Children so shielded from life’s knocks that they struggle when things do not go their way. Then I shared the post with my own children, and what came…
Category: Personal & Family
Personal life, family, and milestone reflections
Brunei Darussalam
Raising Strawberries
We have all heard the label by now. The strawberry generation: bright, polished, beautiful to look at, and bruised the moment anyone presses too hard. At family gatherings and in the office, the verdict is usually the same. They cannot take criticism, they quit too quickly, and they fall apart…
Faith & Reflection
1 mother can take care of 10 children… but can 10 children take care of 1 mother?
I overheard a stranger on her phone last week. I haven’t stopped thinking about it. She was waiting somewhere, talking to her sibling. Their father had just been admitted. She had somewhere else to be, and she was trying to hand things over. Gently at first. Then not so gently….
Brunei & Governance
My thoughts on elderly care in Brunei
Just read Malai Hassan Othman’s (MHO) latest piece, “When Mum Can No Longer Be Left Alone,” and it hits close to home. I see the real struggles families here are going through with this, and it has made me think hard about how unprepared most of us are for this…
Personal & Family
Looking Back on a Chevening Year
I left for Leicester with Aidil Fitri arriving somewhere over the Middle East, bound for a city I had only read about in a prospectus. At the time I was a telco professional with a passion for new media. My personal statement said I wanted to understand how the internet…
Personal & Family
The Tired Ones Weren’t the Ones Working Hardest
I spent this past week just walking around. Not with a clipboard, not really with an agenda, just showing up where the work happens and paying attention. Sitting in on conversations. Watching people do the same thing they do every day, except this time I was actually there to see…
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