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I signed up for the 3-Day.
Chicago, not Seattle, because Aasif is doing it in Chicago, and because Chicago’s closer and I’m just going to have to settle for lots of sunblock and even more water.
I’m nervous — about the fundraising, about getting into shape — but I’m also excited because it could potentially be so [...]

I went to Seattle this weekend and rode a ferry boat. (Did you know McDreamy likes ferry boats? I do too; I think it’s my Arab sailor ancestors coming out in me.) Before that, I went to Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetary in Richland, Washington, to visit my brother.
I don’t remember him at all. My parents [...]

I think the wireless part of my wireless router may be dead… and of course that means more computer problems at home, so if I owe you an email, my apologies, and I hope to get to it soon.
In the meantime, I know there’s a lot to pray about these days, between the Mumbai bombings [...]

Last night, when I cut my nails, I removed the last bit of henna from my hands. Back in December, when my cousin’s daughter Saba first did them, my hands looked like this: (click on the image for the larger, uncropped photo that is less artistic because at the bottom you can see my shoes [...]

So many of my recent posts have been in the this-time-last-year vein that I feel like 2005 must have been extraordinarily eventful. It’s probably more that the events hit me so much harder, absorbed my thoughts and emotions so completely, that they’ve left a mark I’ll revisit year after year.
This was me a year ago [...]

As a child, I had a thing for big earrings. I was convinced there was no point in wearing earrings unless everyone could see them, and also, we were still sitting on the tail end of the 80s at the time.
I outgrew the phase, eventually coming to the conclusion that smaller was classier and it [...]

Sunday morning, after you’ve gone to bed extremely late and woken up relatively early because the phone keeps ringing. You’ve had breakfast, but you’re still sluggish, so you head back on upstairs to the room with the sunlight and the bed that would be the envy of the entire population of three states, if only [...]

At first, I thought all of the cucumber-milk mixture that was the beginnings of my soup would fit into my food processor. I was in the midst of congratulating myself on managing to move the entire contents of my saucepan into the bowl of the food processor without splattering or spilling — a heretofore unmanageable [...]

We are from Allah, and unto Him we return.
Or, in Biblical terms, the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
For our Augusta boys that we lost tonight: Inna lillahi wa inna illahi raji’oon. May Allah (SWT) forgive you and have mercy upon you.
I don’t know what else to [...]