A Poem for My Late Mother — My first impulse is to feel angry When I think of the reasons you are not here I want to conform to this loss I want to forgive myself for hating you so badly I don’t have a reason to And I need to let you go — I need…

When the People Matter More Than the Physical Space — When I applied for the position of Head of Product at Sparrow, I was asked to “describe what home means to you.” It wasn’t until after being on the job for a few weeks that I fully grasped how intertwined my values were with both our company vision and the…

A Life Split From the Sea — This is the last piece I wrote for the 30-day writing challenge I did during November 2020. If you want to read more about it, check the Preface and my Introduction. I arrived in Canada on the first day of Summer in 2003, and landed right into my in-laws’ house…

A Life Split Between Two Hemispheres — My first home was not one I remember. If memory serves me correctly, we moved out of there when I wasn’t even a year old. The place we moved to was the place I always thought I would live at for most of my life. …

Relationships Are Not Defined by Sleeping Habits — There was nothing more lovely than to fall asleep in his arms, entangled in an embrace. That’s what young lovers do, and when we first got married, my body was supple enough to adjust itself to whatever position we fell into. We have been married for 17 years. …

To Stand Alone

Giving Myself 5 More Days to Mope — The other day I was watching “This Hour Has 22 Minutes”. They had this skit where Mark Critch walks up to Cathy Jones as she is sitting on a park bench. Both holding coffee cups and gesturing as if they were a bit cold, she greets him. …

Learning a Bit of Everything to Learn Who I Am — As a child, I used to love drawing. At the age of 9, I asked my mom to enroll me into an art studio but they would only allow kids 12 and older. Somehow, my mother convinced the Atelier owner to allow me to take a test so she could…

Not Everyone Is Built for It, and That Is Ok — This article is the final one of a 4-part series where I share my experience of becoming a Product Manager. It’s also part of the writing challenge I am completing this month. For other articles go to: Part 1 here , Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. When I…