If you don’t get what you love, love what you have.

While it is important to dream, while it is important to aspire to bigger, audacious, and hairy goals, it is also important that we acknowledge, appreciate and accept our winnings while working hard grow. About three years ago, on a Saturday morning, I was trekking in...
From Cattle Herder to Diplomat with Oltesh Thobias

From Cattle Herder to Diplomat with Oltesh Thobias

“Wake up, get ready and let us go.” That was my dad waking me up on a Saturday morning in January 1975, asking me to join him in a trip to a destination I did not know about. I was excited because that did not happen often. The common conversation between my dad and I...
Lessons from my VW beetle 1967

Lessons from my VW beetle 1967

Sam used to eat at Palm Beach Restaurant in Dar. He saw this girl who he really admired but did not know how to break the ice. Sam wanted to date Alice, but had never spoken to her and did not even know where Alice worked. Alice drove a Peugeot 504 and had it parked...
Winners and Whiners with Oltesh Thobias

Winners and Whiners with Oltesh Thobias

Life is good, we wake up in the morning, take a shower eat, have fun come back home, have dinner and sleep. Have you ever had good time?  That is what happened in the Cheese land. It is about a story from a book titled “Who moved my cheese”. The book talks about four...