What are your biggest challenges? Humbling myself. Making sure to acknowledge that I am not always correct in my assertions. Abdicating responsibility. And respecting authority. Letting things go; perhaps it’s an object permanence thing. I have others of course, but this is not a bad place to start.

What relationships have a positive impact on you? It’s odd, but I am more of an animal person these days. My friend owns a calico hound, a rescue, and she is amongst the kindest of dogs I have had the pleasure of knowing. I appreciate the brief interactions of kindness with acquaintances: a laughing person…

What skills or lessons have you learned recently? I have learned that sometimes the best of things are learned in the most trialsome moments. Difficulty can mould us, and refine us. Aggravation or the taking of offense does not result in mediation, growth, or learning. And instead of project, we must pause, and reflect. Digest.

What is your all time favorite automobile? 1980 Chevrolet Corvette. Need I say more?

The Year I was born we moved to America. I moved to the United States when I was a one-year old. My family came from Ivory Coast, Africa. I was born in Abidjan, from the Chu de Cocody. My father worked in the lab in the hospital, and my mother – she worked and taught…