Ramadan 1444 or 2023 is a week away. We just finished the months of Rajab and Shaaban which are months of repentance with extra-long prayers…
The message behind the words is the voice of the heart - Rumi
Category: Self Development
As we welcome 2023, I chose the metaphor of “You Are Here”. When you walk in a mall or popular tourist cities, there are signs…
Whenever I start to write a blog, I wish to accomplish a couple of things: one, share something that people enjoy reading, such as a…
Family Values is a cliched term, especially in the US where it has become a weapon to divide people along party lines. What does it…
Yesterday’s sohbet (dialogue) at Jerrahi Mosque was about silence. I was listening with full attention, as this is a hard lesson for me, and one…
An incident with friends recently got me unstuck again- I had not been blogging for a few weeks, and I was grateful for the unintentional…
As we enter the last week of Ramadan, those who have kept all the fasts look really weak, their voice has changed, they move slowly…
I have been requested to blog about this topic many times but have been avoiding it for years and years. And the reason I have…
I was in a writer’s workshop sponsored by Medium.com and the exercise was to write about what you are most grateful for and what surprised…
Today, we held a Zoom call for aunt. She is in her early 90’s, and looks exactly like my mom who passed away a little…