Just after seven months, back home on Curaçao, the month March was marked by an outburst of business meetings, social- and network events, festivities and more. These encounters were preceded by a thorough mental and spiritual preparation and serve as stepping stones...
“Calling Ten Thousand Angels was needed more than ever before to calm the storms of rage, rebellion, and youthful lust among us.” My siblings and I wanted to party like other children did – go to the movies, and dress differently. My elder siblings started running...
“We were like nomads moving from one place to the other. We even bathed with water from the cistern to keep the water bill low.” The years were passing by and we were settling into our new country learning to speak Papiamentu. Until one day in 1964 a terrible accident...
Mamá made some remarkable statements that today would be considered racist. “Fold in your lips and pinch up your nose” mamá would tell us. We also had to look nice when taking family pictures. A person with thick lips and a flat nose, was and still is, considered by...
“On Sunday, August 10th 2008, my children and I went to my parents’ home after church. We sat in the car and parked in the shade while we waited for my parents to get home from church. As we spoke, it was as if the location for my bed and breakfast suddenly...
Well, here we go again. Some call it “the most wonderful time of the year.” So did I for more than half a century. However, facing the facts and doing research on Christmas over recent years, has led me to think and act differently. I no longer believe...
