Permanent Residence Through Your Spouse

Non-citizen spouses are able to acquire permanent residence through their spouse under the following four conditions. First, your spouse must be a United States Citizen or permanent resident.  Second, you must have entered the United States in legal status i.e. with a visa or under the visa waiver program. Three, you must be admissible to […]

Mbira dza vadzimu

Mbira dza vadzimuIs not your everydayRun-of-the-millMusical instrument.Hence the name: Mbira dza vadzimuIt is the conduitLinking the nether world of the living,The here and now,With the spiritual realm of the ancestors;Thru the person and agency of the spirit medium,The shaman, yes;Who, by strumming out those ancient tunes and soundsOn his ‘thumb piano’,Instantly invokes and transmits messages […]

…oh, the bushman!

When you see him       Flip-flopping on those heaps of sands     That have been his natural habitatFor tens of thousands of yearsYou’d be excused to think he were a weightless creatureFloating upon the sand dunesOf the vast KalahariOften enough barefootedAnd increasingly so, nowadays,He’d be running In that familiar zig-zag fashionIn front of the inevitable 4X4With the  stocky figure […]

How To Manage Your Money

In a recent column entitled “The 3 Ms of  Money,” we discussed the principles of financial achievement – managing, multiplying and maintaining your money. Over the coming weeks, we will examine these three pathways to money success in greater detail. The key to managing your money is knowing what to do with the money that […]