October 5, 2024 Jimmy Carter, Gouw Su Khiem and Their Legacy How do you want to live your life? How do you want to be remembered when you have taken your last breath? Is it…
December 5, 2023 Weeping and Laughing Make Our Lives Meaningful Our beloved sister Yap Lie Tjoe passed away in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on September 22, 2023. She is the eldest of seven siblings and…
August 2, 2023 Poverty and Lack of Opportunity: Are They Siamese Twins? Poverty cripples people’s lives…in so many cases. Recently, my cousins and I had a light chatting about our late parents through our family WhatsApp…
March 10, 2023 The Blessings and Joy of Being ‘Mediocre’ My mother was an ordinary person. She passed away more than 10 years ago at the age of 83. Throughout her life, she had…
March 3, 2023 The Joy of Walking with True Friends in Life Positive. Covid-19. That was the text we received after my wife underwent a Covid test a year ago. Unfortunately, we were some 500 kms…
February 21, 2023 Religion, Confidence and Peaceful Coexistence I was born in a village in Central Java, Indonesia, in late 1956. In the early 1960s, my parents became more devout Christians with…