I was thinking about something earlier today...

The  time  I was working as a computer programmer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in the Washington, D.C. area. ( National Weather Services section ) 

And I remember that time very fondly.

I had been in the United States for ...

I don’t often talk about my private life online.

If you follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube - wherever - you may have noticed that I rarely share photos of my children (who are now young men), or of my husband. But I assure you: they exist. And we have a real life that we live here.

Somethin...

Hello, Dihessa here.

In 2025, I did one of the craziest, most insane things I’ve ever done in my business.

From the outside, it probably looked completely irrational. You might have thought, Why in the world is she doing this? I broke things that were working. Things that were bringing in consiste...

Hello!  I am Dihessa, and I have been living in the United States for about 28 years now, so by now, Thanksgiving is pretty much a tradition that is part of my life. 

But,  the  year that I landed here, my first Thanksgiving in the United States from Togo - West Africa, I knew absolutely nothing ab...

Happy first day of May Everyone!

I know, I can't believe we are  already in May either :) 

Often at the beginning of a new month, I would look back at how the previous month went, to celebrate the wins and lessons learned from it. 

Regardless of how your April went, I know 100%, there was much fo...