I was born in Luxembourg (Europe), almost exactly 36 years ago. To be honest, I was not one of the children or teenagers who knew what they wanted to become when they grow up. And to stay honest, I still don’t know exactly to this day. After school I got advised to start working for…
If you post the Monday after a holiday weekend, is it still part of the weekend? Of course it is! This week’s Geography collection is from Central and South America, and I’m stretching a bit and including one from the Caribbean. I hope you enjoy them and feel free to leave comments! A Minority Amongst…
I started playing with websites back in 2003. I was in secondary school and Internet was relatively new to Somalia. It arrived in 1998-99 but only very few people had internet in their homes. Luckily there were internet cafes and I was introduced to this guy who owned an internet cafe. He had a large…
This week’s HeroPress geography is from Oceania. I’d love more people from that area, so if you know anyone who would be good for HeroPress, please encourage them to fill out the contributor form. Actually, WordPress didn’t change my life. It All Begins With a Thought When Life Throws You a Curveball, WordPress is There…
When I was asked to describe myself and my interests for a bio at work I floundered. I felt the same way when sitting down to write this. Where do I even begin? For my bio, I decided instead of narrowing it down I’d go with “jill-of-all-trades.” I really like to do everything and if…
For a while now I’ve been thinking about how to best leverage older content on HeroPress. People who’ve been a fan of HeroPress for a year now have missed an entire year of essays. Also, older content gets very little traffic, and there’s some really great stuff in there. One idea I came up with…
I was a college teacher for most of my life. When my fourth baby arrived, I gave up a travel-heavy university job and took a “mommy job” as a bookstore manager. I chose books, held teacher workshops, and read stories to children for 15 years. As the internet became important, we put up a website…
As a college guy, I believed in being different and outperforming the best of my lot. Coming from a modest family background, the realization of achievement dawned over me. I never favored being a 9 to 5 corporate professional and a having a ‘boss’ was simply not my cup of coffee. I was never interested…
“Get out there and look at that f****n car. Look at that f****n car!” And all of the good little office girls jumped up and ran outside to ogle and coo over the chairman’s latest “prestige motor.” Me being me – someone who couldn’t care less about cars, or massaging the needy egos of the…
When I was 17, I attended the school for graphical design and printing. I remember one time a teacher yelling at me: ‘With an attitude like that, you won’t get very far in life’. I don’t know why this pops into my mind at the very moment I started to writing this piece for HeroPress….
