Archive for the 'Personal' Category



tail tales 8,476 Comments

Selam Hiz’boche, salutations from Wondu and the marvel that is Wondinet Haile. Two years prior to last I had been in Moscow after years on Wall Street and my only connection to Ethiopia was bernos. I bought the entire bernos tee collection and connected with Nolawi and his tales, who I admire for his ability [...]

perceptive moments 15 Comments

photo nyc china town by nolawi My uncle told me this from his own personal experience of an remarkable man. Just like the story of my professor’s father in law, I find it very interesting and keep retelling it over and over. Last week, I was in Chicago for a week, I met lots of [...]

State of Mind 30 Comments

Besides being a popular phrase; ‘state of mind’ is the perspective on which you look at situations. Yes my definition because I was not able to find my application of the phrase online being described. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” I love that phrase because perception is not reality; and reality is [...]

Another a Midget! 33 Comments

If you have been reading bernos for a while, then you will know that the bernos readers helped name a midget; a baby that is. My sister had another baby boy today. Betam interesting. Eventually all these babies that all you people are having will be adults. It’s amazing! Congratulations to my sister, I guess! [...]

My Holga 14 Comments

Most of you probably have never heard of a Holga. A Holga is a camera that is down to the bare bone of its essential; A  hole for the light to expose the film. Years ago I actually built a camera from scratch, a pinhole camera based on a cardboard can. Those of you that [...]